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Sergio Troncoso has 10 past events. (show)  Sergio Troncoso - CROSSING BORDERS: PERSONAL ESSAYS "On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone," Sergio Troncoso writes in this riveting collection of sixteen personal essays in which he seeks to connect the humanity of his Mexican family to people he meets on the East Coast, including his wife's Jewish kin. Raised in El Paso near the Texas-Mexico border, Troncoso crossed what seemed an even more imposing border when he left home to attend Harvard College. Initially, "outsider status" was thrust upon him; later, he adopted it willingly, writing about the Southwest in an effort to communicate where he came from to those unfamiliar with his childhood world. Troncoso writes to preserve his connections to the past, but he puts pen to paper just as much for the future.
Crossing Borders: Personal Essays reveals a writer, father and husband who has crossed linguistic, cultural and intellectual borders to provoke debate about contemporary Mexican-American identity.
Location: Street: 2421 Bissonnet St City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005-1451 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso reads from From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. Reading with Sergio Troncoso, author of two new books in 2011: From This Wicked Patch of Dust, a novel about the Martinez family from Ysleta, Texas, who struggles to stay together despite a maelstrom of cultural forces pulling them apart; Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, a collection that bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America. (SergioTroncoso)… (more) Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso reads from From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. Reading with Sergio Troncoso, author of two new books in 2011: From This Wicked Patch of Dust, a novel about the Martinez family from Ysleta, Texas, who struggles to stay together despite a maelstrom of cultural forces pulling them apart; Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, a collection that bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America. (SergioTroncoso)… (more) Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso reads from From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. Reading with Sergio Troncoso, author of two new books in 2011: From This Wicked Patch of Dust, a novel about the Martinez family from Ysleta, Texas, who struggles to stay together despite a maelstrom of cultural forces pulling them apart; Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, a collection that bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America. (SergioTroncoso)… (more) Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso reads from From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. Reading with Sergio Troncoso, author of two new books in 2011: From This Wicked Patch of Dust, a novel about the Martinez family from Ysleta, Texas, who struggles to stay together despite a maelstrom of cultural forces pulling them apart; Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, a collection that bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America. (SergioTroncoso)… (more) Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso reads from From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. Reading with Sergio Troncoso, author of two new books in 2011: From This Wicked Patch of Dust, a novel about the Martinez family from Ysleta, Texas, who struggles to stay together despite a maelstrom of cultural forces pulling them apart; Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, a collection that bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America. (SergioTroncoso)… (more) International Center Sergio TroncosoReading with Sergio Troncoso, author of two new books in 2011: From This Wicked Patch of Dust, a novel about the Martinez family from Ysleta, Texas, who struggles to stay together despite a maelstrom of cultural forces pulling them apart; Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, a collection that bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America. (SergioTroncoso)… (more) Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso reads from From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. Reading with Sergio Troncoso, author of two new books in 2011: From This Wicked Patch of Dust, a novel about the Martinez family from Ysleta, Texas, who struggles to stay together despite a maelstrom of cultural forces pulling them apart; Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, a collection that bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America. (SergioTroncoso)… (more) Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso reads from From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. Reading with Sergio Troncoso, author of two new books in 2011: From This Wicked Patch of Dust, a novel about the Martinez family from Ysleta, Texas, who struggles to stay together despite a maelstrom of cultural forces pulling them apart; Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, a collection that bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America. (SergioTroncoso)… (more) Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso reads from From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. Reading with Sergio Troncoso, author of two new books in 2011: From This Wicked Patch of Dust, a novel about the Martinez family from Ysleta, Texas, who struggles to stay together despite a maelstrom of cultural forces pulling them apart; Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, a collection that bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America. (SergioTroncoso)… (more)
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | Sergio Troncoso, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born and grew up in the unincorporated neighborhood or colonia of Ysleta on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas. Troncoso graduated from Harvard College, and studied international relations and philosophy at Yale University. He won a Fulbright scholarship to Mexico, where he studied economics, politics, and literature. He was inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s Alumni Hall of Fame and the Texas Institute of Letters. He teaches writing workshops at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and is a resident faculty member of the Yale Writers’ Conference. He is the author of five books.  | |
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