Antonio Ruiz-Camacho’s ‘Barefoot Dogs’ explores the emotional consequences of violence

Barefoot Dogs, the debut collection of eight stories by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, examines the effect of the drug wars in Mexico from a less than usual approach. As David Garza wrote in a Kirkus Review interview (3/9/15):

In the minds of many, there is a universal immigrant story: that of a disenfranchised laborer who risks life and limb in search of work in the U.S. In his debut collection of stories, Barefoot Dogs, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a Mexican immigrant himself, explores an entirely different type of immigrant class: the wealthy and the elite who are forced into exile by the threat of death and violence.

“The difference with the new wave of immigrants is the violence,” Ruiz-