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The Father is in the Details
 
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The Father is in the Details, an Amazon Short
by Sergio Troncoso (Author)
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Length:  5,929 words, 19 pages
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Sergio Troncoso was born in El Paso, Texas and now lives in New York City. After graduating from Harvard College, ... Read more
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I wrote this essay to give a glimpse into the day-to-day life of a father on New York's Upper Westside, and to argue for a focus on details, in parenting and in life. With this focus, I have been able to change my character, to improve myself as a parent to my children. I hope to reveal a mental life and an internal struggle and a day-to-day focus that too often are overlooked in storytelling, movies, and other ways in which we create characters who inspire us to change.

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About the Author

Sergio Troncoso was born in El Paso, Texas and now lives in New York City. After graduating from Harvard College, he was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico and studied international relations and philosophy at Yale University. In 1999, his book of short stories, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (University of Arizona Press), won the Premio Aztlán for the best book by a new Chicano writer, and the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association. His novel, The Nature of Truth (Northwestern University Press), was published in 2003, and explores righteousness and evil, Yale and the Holocaust. He is a member of the board of directors of the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in New York. Troncoso's stories have been featured in many anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (W.W. Norton), Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (Pearson/Longman Publishing), Once Upon a Cuento (Curbstone Press), City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature (University of Georgia Press), and New World: Young Latino Writers (Dell Publishing). His work has also appeared in Encyclopedia Latina, Newsday, The El Paso Times, Hadassah Magazine, Other Voices, Blue Mesa Review, and many other newspapers and magazines. Please visit his award-winning website at www.sergiotroncoso.com.

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