A Peculiar Kind of Immigrants Son, Sergio Troncoso
A Peculiar Kind of Immigrants Son, Sergio Troncoso
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A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son

Author: Sergio Troncoso

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 6 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/16/2021

Synopsis

How does a Mexican-American, the son of poor immigrants, leave his border 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 twenty-first 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.

About Sergio Troncoso

Sergio Troncoso is the author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, and the novels The Nature of Truth and From This Wicked Patch of Dust. He's taught at the Yale Writers' Workshop for many years. Troncoso is president of the Texas Institute of Letters and a member of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Alumni Hall of Fame. A Fulbright scholar, he has won numerous awards, including the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story, International Latino Book Award, the Premio Aztlan Literary Prize, and the Southwest Book Award. He was born in El Paso, Texas, and attended Harvard College and Yale University, where he earned graduate degrees in international relations and philosophy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sylvia

No lo terminé, me perdió. Tal vez en otro momento vuelva a él. However, verán qué maravilla el primer cuento!......more

Goodreads review by Heather

This was a very timely read. I began the audiobook shortly after my grandfather died. My grandmother died a few months before. It opens at a funeral, and throughout the book you learn the stories of this family, loved ones, and people who are connected somehow. Some of these stories are realistic and......more

Goodreads review by Robert

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son Writers, many of them, can be an arrogant lot, convinced of their talent when their prose does not reflect that talent. How shocking, then, to read a book like A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son. Sergio Troncoso, the author of this remarkable collection, is the kind......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie

This five-star collection of 13 linked stories is rich in themes: aging, marriage and sex, death, class mobility, and ethnicity and xenophobia. Characters reappear from story to story and gain nuance as we see their encounters and relationships. Troncoso brings readers deep into his characters’ mind......more

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