“In Malambo…the Rimac proudly rubs elbows with the freedmen, the cimarrons, and smuggled slaves…It runs united to the other subterranean springs underneath Blanket Street, Weavers Lane, and under Jewish Street…and Swordmaker’s Lanes.” The Rimac shapes the narrative of this compelling historical novel that probes the brutal clash of ethnicity, religion, and class in sixteenth- and…