The 10 best California books of 2023
The 10 best California books of 2023
- November 28, 2023
- Héctor Tobar, Chicano/Latino studies and English, The New York Times, Nov. 28, 2023
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“Our Migrant Souls,” by Héctor Tobar. This deeply personal meditation on the Latino experience reflects the author’s years teaching Latino students at U.C. Irvine as well as several decades spent reporting on immigration, culture and Latin America. From our review: “Tobar is unpreoccupied with settling on a fixed definition of ‘Latino.’ Instead, like a sculptor chipping away at a mass of stone, he is interested in revealing a human shape within it.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/us/best-california-books-2023.html.
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