"This is a world-class collection." ---Luis Urrea
"It's his most powerful work yet, and an essential addition to the Latinx canon." ---The Texas Observer
"A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son is Troncoso at his absolute finest ... a masterwork bursting with immigrantintimacies, electrifying truths and hard-earned tenderness." ---Junot Diaz
Best of Texas 2019 by Lone Star Literary Life
One of Fifteen Great New Books by Latinos for Hispanic Heritage Month by NBC News Digital
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Kirkus Reviews andThe Millions
How does a Mexican-American, the son of immigrants, a child of the border, la frontera, leave home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern old-fashioned father who has only known hard field labor his whole life? With echoes of Dreiser's American Tragedy and Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the 21st century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering promises of new worlds which ultimately seem so empty.
Genre: Literary Fiction
"It's his most powerful work yet, and an essential addition to the Latinx canon." ---The Texas Observer
"A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son is Troncoso at his absolute finest ... a masterwork bursting with immigrantintimacies, electrifying truths and hard-earned tenderness." ---Junot Diaz
Best of Texas 2019 by Lone Star Literary Life
One of Fifteen Great New Books by Latinos for Hispanic Heritage Month by NBC News Digital
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Kirkus Reviews andThe Millions
How does a Mexican-American, the son of immigrants, a child of the border, la frontera, leave home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern old-fashioned father who has only known hard field labor his whole life? With echoes of Dreiser's American Tragedy and Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the 21st century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering promises of new worlds which ultimately seem so empty.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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