Hector Tobar
Hector Tobar's novel, The Barbarian Nurseries (Sceptre, $27.00), tells the story of an upper-middle class married couple, Scott and Maureen, who, following a fight, leave their home and their children. When Scott and Maureen finally return home, the children have gone. Shocked at their own behavior and terrified by what people will think of them, they do what any right-minded middle-class parents would do. They lie. And accuse the maid of abduction. Héctor Tobar, now a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of Translation Nation and The Tattooed Soldier.
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