Veering between past and present, between ecological destruction and human violence,What Comes Backis a search for what has vanished and what remains.

Javier Pealosa M.'s What Comes Backbearing the title "What Comes Back," guide readers on a looping voyage where they are "orbited around the gravity of what had come to be"-the absence of Mexico City's rivers, and other absences wrought by war, climate change, and forced migration. Rattled between ecological destruction and human violence, What Comes Back, what remains, is a desire to name the missing, to render belonging out of dispossession, endurance out of erasure-the spiritual urge toward connection and community.