A Narco-Acid Western told in a series of interlinked poems, Soto's striking debut collection follows the converging paths of two protagonists through El Sumidero, a fictional US Mexico border town where an ongoing drug war is raging. The surreal verse of Soto's poems portrays a bleak political climate as it coincides with the rituals of love and u0026 loss, culture and u0026 spirituality, and u0026 the quest for a better life at all costs. Following the narrative arc of Alejandro Jodorowsky's classic cult film, El Topo , A Grave is Given Supper builds a world saturated with a mystical aura that describes the finite tensions and u0026 complicated desires of lives taking place in the borderland.