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A PECULIAR KIND OF IMMIGRANT'S SON BY SERGIO TRONCOSO

The Latina Book Club celebrates LATINX HERITAGE MONTH every day. To honor authors during this celebratory month, we will highlight a new book every day. Join us and #ReadLatinoLit. A PECULIAR KIND OF IMMIGRANT’S SON By Sergio Troncoso Cinco Puntos Press   RELEASED TODAY ! Brilliant. Thought provoking. Extraordinary. Sergio Troncoso’s much anticipated new collection of stories takes us on journeys from Boston to Manhattan to West Texas. The book is full of unique characters going out into the world, struggling with two cultures, learning to be true to themselves. SUMMARY:   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