The Wait is the title of his first book, a revision of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which takes place in a rural town plagued by cartel violence and forced disappearances, and follows two mothers as they search for their missing children. This theme—an unresolved, interminable wait—reappears as a throughline in his poignant new novel Pages of Mourning, immobilizing the lives of its central characters.