NBC News: Fifteen Great New Books for Hispanic Heritage Month. Thank you, Rigoberto Gonzalez, for putting A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son (Cinco Puntos Press) on this list!
"These poignant short stories shed a startling light on the middle-class
experience of Chicanos in New York. An Ivy League education and job
security in a cosmopolitan city far from their youth in the U.S.-Mexico
borderlands doesn’t mean the American dream has been realized without
further conflict... 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. The wounds of leaving home never truly heal."
