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A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son

Sergio Troncoso

Narrator Timothy Andrés Pabon

Publisher: HighBridge Audio

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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 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.
Duration: about 7 hours (06:30:42)
Publishing date: 2021-02-16; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2021. Copyright Statment: —