Sergio Troncoso - "From this Wicked Patch of Dust" and "Crossing Borders: Personal Essays"

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Sergio Troncoso - "From this Wicked Patch of Dust" and "Crossing Borders: Personal Essays"

Start: 12/18/2011 2:00 pm

Timezone: America/Denver

Collected Works hosts author Sergio Troncoso, as he presents his latest titles From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays.

From This Wicked Patch of Dust is a novel about a Mexican-American family that begins life in a border shantytown, and struggles to stay together despite the cultural and political forces pulling them apart. Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter, sings this novel's praises: "One reads From This Wicked Patch of Dust and can only pause for one moment to say, 'yes.' Sergio Troncoso writes with inevitable grace and mounting power. Family, in all it's baffling wonder, comes alive in these pages."

Crossing Borders: Personal Essays is a series of essays that survey Troncoso's impoverished beginnings in Ysleta, on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas; his experiences at Harvard and Yale; stories of fatherhood; adapting to an interfaith marriage; and teaching children to become great readers. Daniel Chacon, author of and the shadows took him, says "touching and intelligent, this book shows what it's like growing up an intellectual on the border of the US and Mexico."

A graduate of Harvard College, Sergio Troncoso went on to study international relations and philosophy at Yale University. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Mexico, and was inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Alumni Hall of Fame.