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was published by 2Leaf Press in 2014. Reviewer
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represents a new phase of Puerto Rican literature, giving us a character that rebels against the usual and challenges what it means to be Puerto Rican, and the proscribed ways in which to be a Latino." This perspective underlines what Torres calls "writing from the post-barrio universe," signaling a
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marks the first novel written in
English dealing with the Nuyorican reverse migration to Puerto Rico. Claudio Iván Remeseira of NBCLatino recommended it as one of “5 great reads by Latino and Caribbean authors” for 2013. In her review of the novel, Donna Chavez writes that "Torres does capture the
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conflicts and challenges Puerto Ricans experience when returning to their homeland, but he reaches beyond the specific to the universal, illuminating the lives and feelings of any second-generation
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At SUNY Plattsburgh, Torres taught courses on
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Torres's work focuses on the diasporican experience, living in the in-betweeness that forms and informs the Puerto Rican experience in the United States and Puerto Rico. In a review of his novel
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To date, Torres has published a collection of short stories, a novel and a poetry collection, besides numerous stories and poems in journals such as the
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alienation from the very place that he is supposed to consider 'home.'"
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