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Tobar, Héctor

Summary: "In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born...

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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOB

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tobar 2020

Balibrera, Gina Maria

Summary: "A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador's brutal dictator, El Gran Pendejo, and their flight from genocide, which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to cannery row, each followed by a chorus of furies, the ghosts of their murdered friends, who aren't yet done telling their stories. El Salvador, 1923. Graciela grows up on a volcano in a community...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024

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