A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son
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Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
Total Pages : 135
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ISBN-10 : 9781947627345
ISBN-13 : 1947627341
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son by : Sergio Troncoso

Download or read book A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son written by Sergio Troncoso and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Institute of Letters, Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story Reading the West Award Nominee 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.


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