A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son

"Sergio Troncoso is one of our most brilliant minds in Latina/o Literature. These new stories demonstrate that he is also possessed of a great corazón. This is a world-class collection. Troncoso continues to raise the bar for the rest of us. Highly recommended."

"Troncoso's sharp-edged stories speak to the difficult lives of those who, as he writes, are born behind in a race they must run all the same."

"Our bodies are legacies that encompass landscapes, borders, ancestors, histories that bind us to the past. Here are stories lodged in the geography of polarities and the taut tightrope act between."

"I love Sergio Troncoso's new collection. . .This book is a triumph, the work of a master writer at the peak of his game."

"A collection of stories about told from the perspective of a Mexican-American man born to poor parents and making his way through the elite institutions of America. Luis Alberto Urrea calls the book 'a world-class collection.'"

"[A]n outstanding collection of connected short stories uniquely reflecting life along the troubled Texas-Mexico border."

"Sergio Troncoso tells skillfully nuanced stories from the perspective of a poor immigrants' son who has found success within the world of America's elite universities and financial power, yet still feels adrift and alienated and seeks deeper meanings."

"These poignant short stories shed a startling light on the middle-class experience of Chicanos in New York. . .Sergio Troncoso dispels the myth of assimilation as a safe haven and reminds readers that distance from a working-class upbringing doesn't absolve a person from the responsibility to one's community."

An inherently fascinating and compelling read from first page to last, "A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son" is an extraordinary and deftly written collection and one that is especially and unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Hispanic American Literature & Fiction collections.

"Although many stories take place far from the Rio Grande, this is a robust, proud exploration of what it is like to be (on what one character calls) 'the edge of the edge of the United States': to be the child of immigrants, to be straddling two worlds–lines between love and sex, past and future, civilization and brutality, life and death."