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    Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration
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    Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration
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    Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration

    By Sam Quinones

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    This is journalist Sam Quinones' classic collection of nonfiction tales about Mexican immigrants, the border, and more.
    A dazzling follow-up to his cult classic, True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx.
    The stories begin with a tale that could have been plucked from The Godfather - of a man who in the 1920s heads north to buy a gun to avenge his father's murder. Quinones continues with deftly told stories that are at once strange, magnificent, and reflect the complicated odyssey - the energy and the costs - of Mexicans into the United States, and of their return home.
    Quinones chronicles the tale of the Tomato King, of a high-school soccer season in Kansas, and of Mexican corruption in a small LA County town.
    He narrates the saga of the Henry Ford of Velvet Painting, and of how an opera scene emerged in Tijuana, and how a Zacatecan taco empire formed in Chicago.
    Threading through the book are three tales of a modern Mexican Huck Finn. Quinones ends the collection in a chapter called "Leaving Mexico" with his harrowing tangle with the Narco-Mennonites of Chihuahua.
    In its review of Antonio's Gun, the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review called Quinones "the most original American writer on Mexico and the border out there."
    "Genuinely original work," the review went on. "What great fiction and nonfiction aspire to be, these are stories that stop time, and remind us how great reading is."
    “Over the last 15 years, [Quinones] has filed the best dispatches about Mexican migration and its effects on the United States and Mexico, bar none,” wrote Gustavo Arellano, columnist of Ask a Mexican, in his review for the Los Angeles Times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSam Quinones
    Release dateAug 5, 2015
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    Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration
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    Sam Quinones

    Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, including New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. "The most original writer on Mexico and the border" (San Francisco Chronicle), he lives with his family in Tennessee.

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