Pauls Toutonghi, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $23 (245p) ISBN 978-0-307-33675-0
Toutonghi's tragicomic debut novel paints a loving, cockeyed picture of the Soviet immigrant experience in the twilight of the Cold War. Yuri Balodis, a painfully thin, bookish 15-year-old living in Milwaukee with his parents, narrates with...
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Pauls Toutonghi. Crown, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-38215-3
Butte, Mont., resident, Khosi Saqr, the 20-something son of an Egyptian father who abandoned him at three and an American mother descended from an Irish immigrant, is a mess. Afraid to leave home, he’s obsessed with his work at the local history...
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Pauls Toutonghi. Knopf, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-101-94701-2
The latest from Toutonghi (Evel Knievel Days) tells the story of Gonker, a golden retriever who goes missing on a hike with his owner, the author’s brother-in-law. Toutonghi explains that he felt the need to tell the story on behalf of his wife’s...
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