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The Barbarian Nurseries (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Los Angeles Times columnist, Pulitzer-winning journalist, and acclaimed novelist Hector Tobar will read and sign his highly-anticipated new novel, The Barbarian Nurseries.
"Tobar is both inventive and relentless in pricking the pretentious social consciences of his entitled Americans, though he also casts a sober look on the foibles of the Mexicans who serve them. His sharp eye for Southern California culture, spiraling plot twists, ecological awareness, and ample willingness to dole out come-uppance to the nauseatingly privileged may put readers in mind of T.C. Boyle." --Publishers Weekly
Hector Tobar, now a weekly columnist for the "Los Angeles Times", is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of "Translation Nation" and "The Tattooed Soldier". The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of the city of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Photo of the author by Doug Knutson.
THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS OCTOBER 4, 2011.
English
United States
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