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Sam Quinones's first book, True Tales From Another Mexico, was acclaimed for the way it peered into the corners of that country for its larger truths and complexities. Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, Quinones's second collection of nonfiction tales, does the same for one of the most important issues of our times: the migration of Mexicans to the United States.
Quinones has covered the world of Mexican immigrants for the last thirteen years--from Chicago to Oaxaca, Michoacan to southeast Los Angeles, Tijuana to Texas. Along the way, he has uncovered stories that help illuminate all that Mexicans seek when they come north, how they change their new country, and are changed by it.
Here are the stories of the Henry Ford of velvet painting in Ciudad Juarez, the emergence of opera in Tijuana, the bizarre goings-on in the L.A. suburb of South Gate, and of the drug-addled colonies of Old World German Mennonites in Chihuahua. Through it all winds the tale of Delfino Juarez, a young construction worker, and modern-day Huckleberry Finn, who had to leave his village to change it.
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These stories of real people who have immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico show how they have changed their new country and how they are changed by it.
About the Author:
Journalist Sam Quinones lived in Mexico for 10 years, publishing two books of narrative nonfiction about the country.
In 2001 he published a highly acclaimed collection of stories about contemporary Mexico, True Tales from Another Mexico: the Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx (UNM Press).
In 2007, he published Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration (UNM Press).
He is the recipient of both a Alicia Patterson Fellowship and, from Columbia University, a Maria Moors Cabot Prize, awarded for a career of excellence in the covering Latin America.
He now lives in Southern California with his family, and is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Contact him at samquinones.com.
In 2001 he published a highly acclaimed collection of stories about contemporary Mexico, True Tales from Another Mexico: the Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx (UNM Press).
In 2007, he published Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration (UNM Press).
He is the recipient of both a Alicia Patterson Fellowship and, from Columbia University, a Maria Moors Cabot Prize, awarded for a career of excellence in the covering Latin America.
He now lives in Southern California with his family, and is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Contact him at samquinones.com.
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- PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
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