Winner of the California Book Award for Fiction A Los Angeles Times bestseller Named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review , Los Angeles Times , San Francisco Chronicle , and The Boston Globe With The Barbarian Nurseries , Héctor Tobar gives our most misunderstood metropolis its great contemporary novel, taking us beyond the glimmer of Hollywood and deeper than camera-ready crime stories to reveal Southern California life as it really is, across its vast, sunshiny sprawl of classes, languages, dreams, and ambitions.
The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of the city of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children..
He is the author of Translation Nation , The Tattooed Soldier , and Deep Down Dark , filmed as the major motion picture The 33.
About author(s): Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a novelist.
Héctor Tobar \'s The Barbarian Nurseries is a masterful tale of contemporary Los Angeles, a novel as alive as the city itself.
Their parents unreachable, she takes them to central Los Angeles in the hopes of finding Scott\'s estranged Mexican father--an earnest quest that soon becomes a colossal misadventure, with consequences that ripple through every stratum of the sprawling city.
One night, an argument between the couple turns physical, and a misunderstanding leaves the children in Araceli\'s care.
But when bad investments crater their bank account, it all comes down to Araceli, their somewhat prickly Mexican maid.
Scott and Maureen Torres-Thompson have always relied on others to run their Orange County home.
Winner of the California Book Award for Fiction A Los Angeles Times bestseller Named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review , Los Angeles Times , San Francisco Chronicle , and The Boston Globe With The Barbarian Nurseries , Héctor Tobar gives our most misunderstood metropolis its great contemporary novel, taking us beyond the glimmer of Hollywood and deeper than camera-ready crime stories to reveal Southern California life as it really is, across its vast, sunshiny sprawl of classes, languages, dreams, and ambitions
