Tears of the Trufflepig (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374538330)

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE. One of Tor.com's Best Books of 2019.

"Readers of this breakout work [will leave] thrilled and disoriented in equal measure." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

One of The Daily Beast's Best Summer Beach Reads of 2019, one of Lit Hub and The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one of Buzzfeed and Tor.com's Books to Read This Spring, and one of the Chicago Review of Books' Best New Books of May

A parallel universe. South Texas. A third border wall might be erected between the United States and Mexico, narcotics are legal and there's a new contraband on the market: filtered animals--species of animals brought back from extinction to amuse the very wealthy.

Esteban Bellacosa has lived in the border town of MacArthur long enough to know to keep quiet and avoid the dangerous syndicates who make their money through trafficking. But his simple life gets complicated after a swashbuckling journalist invites him to an underground dinner at which filtered animals are served. Bellacosa soon finds himself in the middle of an increasingly perilous and surreal journey, in the course of which he encounters legends of the long-disappeared Arana Indian tribe and their object of worship: the mysterious Trufflepig, said to possess strange powers.

Written with infectious verve, bold imagination, and oddball humor, Fernando A. Flores's Tears of the Trufflepig is an absurdist take on life along the border, an ode to the myths of Mexican culture, and an introduction to a staggeringly smart new voice in American fiction.

Author: Fernando A. Flores
ISBN-10: 0374538336
ISBN-13: 9780374538330
Publisher: MCD X Fsg Originals
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2019
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2019 pg. 80
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 03/18/2019
Booklist 05/01/2019 pg. 75
Shelf Awareness 05/31/2019