Sergio Troncoso
Auteur van The Last Tortilla & Other Stories
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Sergio Troncoso is the author of From This Wicked Patch of Dust (University of Arizona Press, 2011), The Nature of Truth (Northwestern University Press, 2003) and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (University of Arizona Press, 1999), which won the Premio Aztln and the Southwest Book Award. He toon meer received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and two graduate degrees from Yale University. He lives and works in New York City. toon minder
Fotografie: Sergio Troncoso at his Fiction Workshop for the Yale Writers' Workshop in New Haven, Connecticut.
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- Sergio Troncoso is the author of NOBODY'S PILGRIMS, A PECULIAR KIND OF IMMIGRANT'S SON, THE LAST TORTILLA AND OTHER STORIES, CROSSING BORDERS: PERSONAL ESSAYS, the novels THE NATURE OF TRUTH, FROM THIS WICKED PATCH OF DUST, NOBODY'S PILGRIMS; and as editor NEPANTLA FAMILIAS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MEXICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE ON FAMILIES IN BETWEEN WORLDS and OUR LOST BORDER: ESSAYS ON LIFE AMID THE NARCO VIOLENCE. Among the numerous awards he has won are the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story, Premio Aztlan Literary Prize, Southwest Book Award, Bronze Award for Essays from ForeWord Reviews, International Latino Book Award for Best Novel-Adventure or Drama, and the Silver Award for Multicultural Fiction from ForeWord Reviews.
A Fulbright scholar and past president of the Texas Institute of Letters, Troncoso teaches fiction and nonfiction at the Yale Writers’ Workshop in New Haven, Connecticut. He has served as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the New Letters Literary Awards in the Essay category. His work has recently appeared in Texas Highways, Houston Chronicle, CNN Opinion, New Letters, Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Texas Monthly Magazine.
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Interesting collection. As with all short story collections there are some I liked more than others. Entertaining all in all.
In the introduction to the collection of short stories, Ilan Stavans comments about Troncoso – “He makes art out of ordinariness.” I couldn’t say it better.
In the title story, siblings struggle to celebrate a traditional Christmas following the death of their mother, and their father’s remarriage to a woman the children do not like. [i]Angie Luna[/i] tells the story of a college student home for the holidays who falls for an “older” woman who lives across the border in Juarez. In [i]Punching Chickens[/i] a teenage boy recounts his first job. In another story, a chubby boy struggles with teasing by schoolmates and dreams of getting a 10-speed bike. An elderly couple struggle to dispel each other’s demons and fears of impending death in [i]The Abuelita[/i]. My favorite story is probably [i]The Gardener[/i], wherein an elderly widow tricks her equally aged gardener into accepting her invitation to share her home.
Troncoso gives us stories of Mexican-American life along the US / Mexico border, but also stories that will speak to all of us. He covers universal themes of love, death, coming-of-age and family life, but also touches on the clash between Mexicans living in America vs those still in Mexico, and the difficulty faced by young Latinos who don’t speak Spanish but don’t feel they fit into the American mainstream either. A couple of these stories were very hard to read because of their difficult subject matter (home invasion, violence among children), a couple left me dissatisfied with what I felt was an abrupt ending. A few of these stories were truly wonderful. The star rating reflects an average across the collection.
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In the title story, siblings struggle to celebrate a traditional Christmas following the death of their mother, and their father’s remarriage to a woman the children do not like. [i]Angie Luna[/i] tells the story of a college student home for the holidays who falls for an “older” woman who lives across the border in Juarez. In [i]Punching Chickens[/i] a teenage boy recounts his first job. In another story, a chubby boy struggles with teasing by schoolmates and dreams of getting a 10-speed bike. An elderly couple struggle to dispel each other’s demons and fears of impending death in [i]The Abuelita[/i]. My favorite story is probably [i]The Gardener[/i], wherein an elderly widow tricks her equally aged gardener into accepting her invitation to share her home.
Troncoso gives us stories of Mexican-American life along the US / Mexico border, but also stories that will speak to all of us. He covers universal themes of love, death, coming-of-age and family life, but also touches on the clash between Mexicans living in America vs those still in Mexico, and the difficulty faced by young Latinos who don’t speak Spanish but don’t feel they fit into the American mainstream either. A couple of these stories were very hard to read because of their difficult subject matter (home invasion, violence among children), a couple left me dissatisfied with what I felt was an abrupt ending. A few of these stories were truly wonderful. The star rating reflects an average across the collection.
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Fun to read about El Paso since I live in Texas but not thrilled with the book or the writing. The story of a traditional Mexican American family changing over the decades to include Protestants, Muslims, and Jews as family members made for some interesting storylines but the author never carried these through far enough. With too much detail about some things (i.e.: a family baseball game in the park) and not enough detail about others (i.e.: the daughter's life as a Muslim woman and mother), the whole thing felt choppy. Chapters would end with a significant event never to be picked up again. It eventually becomes obvious that it's an autobiography masked as fiction because the author's life mirrors that of the youngest son's. Although I can appreciate the story's value for its depiction of Mexican American life and culture, it falls short of being really interesting. Just because it's about another way of life does not automatically make it great literature.… (meer)
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I share all of this because I celebrate that this book made my friend, and presumably other Latinx people feel seen and heard. When books do that for me it is just the best. There were things here that did resonate with me, but overall I have to say that I was not a huge fan of this one. It was clearly honest and from the heart, but the writing was mostly, as Tim Gunn would say, "student work." It is clunky and obvious and overwritten. The final three stories were actually painful to read (due to the writing not the pathos), especially "Library Island." The first two stories were the best, though both had really contrived setups. All in all a 2.5 rounded up for Goodreads because the intentions here are so pure (and sadly so obvious) I know it resonated with others. I think perhaps for younger readers this might work.… (meer)