Book Reviews for Sergio Troncoso
The Nature of Truth --- Reviews of Sergio Troncoso's novel from The Chicago Tribune, The Forward, The Believer Magazine, Janus Head, Multicultural Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Southwest Book Views, The El Paso Times, and more.
The Last Tortilla and Other Stories --- Reviews of his first collection of short stories from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The El Paso Times, The Austin Chronicle, Bloomsbury Review, The Texas Observer, Multicultural Review, and more.
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The Nature of Truth:
"Troncoso excels as a narrator, a storyteller, and a creator of vivid characters and images." ---Southwest Book Views
"Impressively lucid first thriller." ---The Chicago Tribune
"The Nature of Truth is a unique meditation on redemption and retribution that tackles racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism with sensitivity and skill." ---The El Paso Times
"The subtlety, and fairness, with which Troncoso presents these conflicting frameworks [Nietzschean valor, Christian pragmatism, and blind inductivism] stand as the novel's crowning intellectual achievement, side by side with the artistic one: a convincing tale of murder and ruminating guilt." ---Janus Head, a journal of Philosophy, Literature and Psychology
The Last Tortilla and Other Stories:
"These stories are richly satisfying." ---Publishers Weekly
"Enthusiastically recommended." ---Booklist
"Troncoso really shines when he writes about El Paso and the life of Mexican-Americans there. He has the gift for writing from his heart outward into his reader's heart." ---Bloomsbury Review
From This Wicked Patch of Dust --- Reviews of Sergio Troncoso's novel from Kirkus Reviews, The Dallas Morning News, The El Paso Times, The Albuquerque Journal, NPR affiliate: Arizona’s KNAU, The Philadelphia City Paper, Spanish News Agency EFE, and more.
Crossing Borders: Personal Essays --- Reviews of his collection of essays from The Hispanic Reader, Literal Magazine, REFORMA, The Packinghouse Review, The El Paso Times, Spanish News Agency EFE, and more.
From This Wicked Patch of Dust:
“Troncoso is clearly adept at his craft, telling a story filled with rich language and the realities of family life....With its skillful pairing of conflict over religious and familial obligations with the backdrop of a Mexican-American family’s love for one another, Troncoso’s novel is an engaging literary achievement.” ---Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“Nuanced and authentic.” ---The Dallas Morning News
“There’s...genuine heart and pride in the depiction of the ‘four children, four worlds’ that spiral out of a single immigrant dream.” ---The El Paso Times
“An ambitious book, full of insight into complex American identity....There's wisdom in these pages and compassion for fragmented families in a mobile, complicated world.” ---National Public Radio Affiliate, Arizona’s KNAU
“Sergio Troncoso breathes fresh air into the American assimilation story. This story is...wholly universal.” ---The Philadelphia City Paper
“An intimate, revealing chronicle.” ---The Albuquerque Journal
Crossing Borders: Personal Essays:
“Engrossing and revealing.” ---Daniel Olivas for The El Paso Times
“Troncoso is an elegant writer whose work will make readers grateful that he writes his life down.” ---The Hispanic Reader
“Troncoso’s essays are lucid, philosophical, and erudite without being condescending to the reader. Crossing Borders signals a shift in writing about what it means to be Chicano and a writer in the early 21st century.” ---The Packinghouse Review
“These very personal essays cross several borders: cultural, historical, and self-imposed....We owe it to ourselves to read, savor and read them again.” ---Manuel Ramos for The El Paso Times
“It is these details that fill the simple and accessible prose of these essays with life, demonstrating how from such personal experiences emanate a universal message about what unifies us, despite our many differences.” ---Spanish News Agency EFE
