“These poignant short stories shed a startling light on the middle-class experience of Chicanos in New York.... The wounds of leaving home never truly heal.”
---NBC News Digital

“It’s his most powerful work yet, and an essential addition to the Latinx canon.”
---The Texas Observer

“Troncoso’s sharp-edged stories speak to the difficult lives of those who, as he writes, are born behind in a race they must run all the same.”
---Kirkus Reviews

“An outstanding collection of connected short stories uniquely reflecting life along the troubled Texas-Mexico border.”
---Lone Star Literary Life

“Sergio Troncoso is one of our most brilliant minds in Latina/o Literature...This is a world-class collection.”
---Luis Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird’s Daughter

“A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son is Troncoso at his absolute finest ... 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

“Our bodies are legacies that encompass landscapes, borders, ancestors, histories that bind us to the past. Here are stories lodged in the geography of polarities and the taut tightrope act between.”
---Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

*Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story from Texas Institute of Letters
*Gold Medal for Best Collection of Short Stories (English or Bilingual) from
      International Latino Book Awards
*Silver Award for Multicultural Adult Fiction from Foreword Reviews’ Book of
      Year Awards
*Silver Medal for The Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino Focused Fiction Book from
      International Latino Book Awards