Books by Justin Torres and Complete Book Reviews

Justin Torres. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $21 (128p) ISBN 978-0-547-57672-5
Three brothers and a dueling husband and wife are bound by poverty and love in this debut novel from Stegner Fellow Torres. Manny, Joel, and the unnamed youngest, who narrates, are rambunctious and casually violent. Their petite "white" mother, with
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Justin Torres. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-29357-4
Torres’s ambitious sophomore outing (following We the Animals) intersperses a fictional biography of early 20th-century sex researcher Jan Gay with an enticing if murky present-day narrative. The unnamed 20-something narrator visits a dying man...
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  • First Fiction 2011: Justin Torres: We Are Family, Too
  • Fiction First Timers: First Fiction 2011
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