Writers Corner: Nobody's Pilgrims by Sergio Troncoso

Sergio Troncoso graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and has two graduate degrees from Yale. He is a Fulbright scholar, president of the Texas Institute of Letters and teaches at the Yale Writers' Workshop. He is the author of Nobody’s Pilgrims, a novel about three teenagers escaping the United States-Mexico border and pursued by evil which Ben Fountain called a “superb novel.”   Nobody’s Pilgrims won the 2022 Gold Medal for Best Novel - Adventure or Drama in English at the International Latino Book Awards.  

Book Reviews: 

Publishers Weekly called his first book, “The Last Tortilla and Other Stories”, “Richly satisfying.”  

“A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son”, his latest book, is a collection of linked short stories on immigration which Junot Díaz called “a masterwork.”   

“From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, which Kirkus Reviews named one of the best books of 2012 in a starred review. 

The novel also won the Southwest Book Award.   

“Crossing Borders: Personal Essays”, it won the Bronze Award for Essays from Foreword Reviews.   

“The Nature of Truth”, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “impressively lucid.”    

Books: 

Nobody’s Pilgrims 

Get the book on Amazon here: 

https://amzn.to/3mLcV9S  

ASIN: 1947627414  

Nepantla Familias: 

An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds 

Get the book on Amazon here: 

https://amzn.to/3aZ45CE 

ASIN: 1947627333  

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son 

Get the book on Amazon here: 

https://amzn.to/3HoyWEY 

ASIN: 1623499631  

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