Tears of the Trufflepig: A Novel [Paperback]

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE.One ofTor.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 ofThe Daily Beast's Best Summer Beach Reads of 2019, one ofLit HubandThe Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one ofBuzzfeedandTor.com's Books to Read This Spring, and one of theChicago 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 theres a new contraband on the market: filtered animalsspecies 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?a 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. FloressTears of the Trufflepigis 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.

[A] bonkers dystopia of deprivation and decadence . . . WhileTears of the Trufflepigdetails a scabrous alternate version of the border region, it eventually inhabitsa strange, dreamlike lã