From This Wicked Patch of Dust

Sergio Troncoso

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: University of Arizona Press, 2011

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In the border shantytown of Ysleta, Mexican immigrants Pilar and Cuauhtémoc Martínez strive to teach their four children to forsake the drugs and gangs of their neighborhood. The family?s hardscrabble origins are just the beginning of this sweeping new novel from Sergio Troncoso. Spanning four decades, this is a story of a family?s struggle to become American and yet not be pulled apart by a maelstrom of cultural forces. As a young adult, daughter Julieta is disenchanted with Catholicism and converts to Islam. Youngest son Ismael, always the bookworm, is accepted to Harvard but feels out of place in the Northeast where he meets and marries a Jewish woman. The other boys?Marcos and Francisco?toil in their father?s old apartment buildings, serving as the cheap labor to fuel the family?s rise to the middle class. Over time, Francisco isolates himself in El Paso while Marcos eventually leaves to become a teacher, but then returns, struggling with a deep bitterness about his work and marriage. Through it all, Pilar clings to the idea of her family and tries to hold it together as her husband?s health begins to fail. This backdrop is then shaken to its core by the historic events of 2001 in New York City. The aftermath sends shockwaves through this newly American family. Bitter conflicts erupt between siblings and the physical and cultural spaces between them threaten to tear them apart. Will their shared history and once-common dreams be enough to hold together a family from Ysleta, this wicked patch of dust.…

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Titel
From This Wicked Patch of Dust
Autor
Sergio Troncoso
Verlag
University of Arizona Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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Very Good
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Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0816530041
ISBN-13
9780816530045

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