From The Journal of Alta California on A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son:
"Chicano literature began with the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, when a sizable Latino population was separated from its land
and heritage. Sergio Troncoso has written brilliantly of this disruption
and its pull. In his new book of stories, he is sharp in 'Rosary on the
Border,' where a New Yorker returns to the El Paso–area village of
Ysleta for his father’s funeral, and 'New Englander,' in which an
intellectual Chicano must fight a redneck"
https://altaonline.com/fiction-thats-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/