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A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the United States right now."Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States, and also one of the most rapidly growing. Composed as a d...

WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONNamed One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2023One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 A Top Ten Book of 2023 at Chicago Public LibraryA new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity. With its original hardcover publication, Our Migrant Souls broke new ground in its powerful examination of the social and political forces that sha...

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity."Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx stude...

Winner of the California Book Award for FictionA Los Angeles Times bestsellerNamed a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe With The Barbarian Nurseries, Héctor Tobar gives our most misunderstood metropolis its great contemporary novel, taking us beyond the glimmer of Hollywood and deeper than camera-ready crime stories to reveal Southern California life as it r...

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 into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urban...

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 into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urban...

Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household, one of three Mexican employees in a stunning Spanish-style house. She was responsible strictly for the cooking and cleaning, but the recession has hit and shes the last Mexican standing. Unless you count Scott Torres, whom youd never suspect was half Mexican but for his surname and an old family photo with central LA in the background. Finances are causing fights even Araceli knows ...

A dramatic account of the 33 miners who were trapped down the San Jose mine in Chile for 69 days in 2010. From novelist and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Hector Tobar, in official collaboration with the miners themselves.

Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee in Los Angeles haunted by memories of his wife and child, who were murdered at the hands of a man marked with yellow ink. In a park near Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a sinister tattoo-yellow pelt, black spots, red mouth. It is the sign of the death squad, the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army.This chance encounter between Antonio and his family's killer ignites...

A great panoramic social novel by the only writer qualified to capture LA in all its glory and complexity. Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household, one of three Mexican employees in a stunning Spanish-style house. She was responsible strictly for the cooking and cleaning, but the recession has hit and she's the last Mexican standing. Unless you count Scott Torres, whom you'd never suspect was half Mexican but for his surna...

A great panoramic social novel by the only writer qualified to capture LA in all its glory and complexity. Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household, one of three Mexican employees in a stunning Spanish-style house. She was responsible strictly for the cooking and cleaning, but the recession has hit and she's the last Mexican standing. Unless you count Scott Torres, whom you'd never suspect was half Mexican but for his surna...

A great panoramic social novel by the only writer qualified to capture LA in all its glory and complexity. Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household, one of three Mexican employees in a stunning Spanish-style house. She was responsible strictly for the cooking and cleaning, but the recession has hit and she's the last Mexican standing. Unless you count Scott Torres, whom you'd never suspect was half Mexican but for his surna...

Tia Chucha Press is proud to reprint by popular demand this anthology of work by Central American writers living in the United States. The Wandering Song captures the complexity of a rapidly growing community that shares certain experiences with other Latinx groups, but also offers its own unique narrative. This is the first-ever comprehensive literary survey of the Central American diaspora by a US publisher--perfect for high school, college,...

A 21st century Bonfire of the Vanities, set in LA.

Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar offers the definitive account of a heart-stopping survival story: the 2010 collapse of the San Jose mine and the international rescue effort that somehow managed to save all 33 miners, who had been trapped half a mile beneath the surface for 69 days. The rescue was watched by more 1 billion viewers worldwide. No other writer has been granted the deep and exclusive access to the miners that Hector ...

The exclusive, official story of the survival, faith, and family of Chile's thirty-three trapped minersWhen the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. Across the globe, we sat riveted to television and computer screens as journalists flocked to the Atacama desert. While we saw what transpired above ground during t...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar takes readers on the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States--a parallel nation, 35 million strong, that is changing the very notion of what it means to be an American in unprecedented and unexpected ways.

Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Antonio BanderasIncludes New Material Exclusive to the PaperbackA Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle AwardA Finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA New York Times Book Review Notable BookWhen the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer P...

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A dramatic account of the 33 miners of the San Jose mine in Chile by novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar, in official collaboration with 'The 33' and with the full cooperation of the Chilean authorities behind the daring rescue operation.