"Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel" is a raucous, hilarious journey through political dangers that come in all shapes, cup sizes, and sexual identities, a trip into the wild, sometimes outrageous world of the Texas-Mexico border and all geographical and anatomical points south.
Honore del Castillo runs the family curio shop in the backwater border town of Escandon, Texas, and fears dying in front of his TV like some six-pack Jose in his barrio. Encouraged by his friend Trotsky, he becomes politically activesmuggling refugees, airlifting guns to Mexican revolutionaries,...