The last tortilla & other stories
By: Sergio Troncoso ; with an introduction by Ilan Stavans.
Series: Camino del sol
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Fiction.; El Paso (Tex.) -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Other titles: Last tortilla and other stories; Last tortilla
Description: "Troncoso's El Paso is a normal town where common people who happen to be Mexican eat, sleep, fall in love, and undergo epiphanies just like everyone else. His tales are coming-of-age stories from the Mexican-American border, stories of the working class, stories of those coping with the trials of growing old in a rapidly changing society. He also explores New York with vignettes of life in the big city, capturing its loneliness and danger."--BOOK JACKET.

"Beginning with Troncoso's widely acclaimed story "Angie Luna," the tale of a feverish love affair in which a young man rediscovers his Mexican heritage and learns how much love can hurt, these stories delve into the many dimensions of the human condition. We watch boys playing a game that begins innocently but takes a dangerous turn. We see an old Anglo woman befriending her Mexican gardener because both are lonely.

We witness a man terrorized in his New York apartment, taking solace in memories of lost love."--BOOK JACKET. "Troncoso sets aside the polemics about social discomfort sometimes found in contemporary Chicano writing and focuses instead on the moral and intellectual lives of his characters."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Ilan Stavans; title: Angie Luna; title: A rock trying to be a stone; title: Espíritu Santo; title: Remembering possibilities; title: The snake; title: Time magician; title: The abuelita; title: The gardener; title: The last tortilla; title: Punching chickens; title: Day of the dead; title: My life in the city; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the author.