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One of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates prize. One of Exile in Bookville’s Favorite Books of 2020.
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A hybrid of biography and novel, Tobar has written a book that is at once a great adventure story and bildungsroman while at the same time a profound meditation on the ongoing conversation between the US and Latin America.
Tobar, from a Central American immigrant family himself, creates a kind of mirror between North and South in this thoughtful rendering of North American culture and the heartbreaking civil wars of Central America over the last few generations.
Many years in the making, Tobar had access to the diaries and novel-in-progress of the charismatic Joe Sanderson – son of the…
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