Tag: immigration
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Lone Star Review: NIGHTS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENED
Review of debut literary fiction from Carrollton author
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Lone Star Review: AFTER THE LAST BORDER
Review of After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau
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Lone Star Review: THE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, THE WOMEN
Review of Wayétu Moore’s memoir, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
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Lone Star Review: A PECULIAR KIND OF IMMIGRANT’S SON
A review of Sergio Troncoso’s new short story collection
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Lone Star Review: A PARTICULAR KIND OF BLACK MAN
Chirs Manno reviews Tope Folarin’s A Particular Kind of Black Man
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Lone Star Review: WHERE WE COME FROM by Oscar Cásares
A review of Where We Come From, the second novel by Brownsville native and Austin professor Oscar Cásares.
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LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE by Valeria Luiselli
A family — a man and a woman, both documentarians working with sound (“We accumulated hours of tape of people speaking, telling stories, pausing, telling lies, praying, hesitating, confessing, breathing.”), and a boy, ten, and a girl, five — leave their New York apartment on a cross-country road trip.
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Lone Star Review: EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME
Isabel sees dead people. She and Martin were married on Día de los Muertos, “which no one gave much thought to in all the months of planning, until the bride’s deceased father-in-law showed up in the car following the ceremony.” Martin’s father, Omar, and his mother, Elda, crossed the Rio Grande while she…