The Central NY Chapter of The Fulbright Chapter invites you to their second "Fulbright Reads: A Virtual Book Club" event on Wednesday, April 21 from 7:30PM-9:00 PM. Join author (and Fulbright alumna) Sergio Troncoso and members of the Central NY chapter. ALL are welcome!
“(A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son is) a masterwork bursting with immigrant intimacies, electrifying truths and hard-earned tenderness... An extraordinary performance.” -Junot Díaz, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“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 21st 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.”
To register for the free Zoom event: https://bit.ly/3qmoIe8
Read more about the author at https://sergiotroncoso.com/guides/about/index.htm
Purchase the book at your locally owned bookstore, or at Cinco Puntos Press, Amazon.com, or Barnes and Noble.