PositiveCleveland Review of BooksThe continued pounding and re-pounding of contemporary Mexican strife may be the book’s drawback, but Flores’ creativity in rehashing each unfavorable part of Mexican society—paranoia, corruption, impunity, fear of highway robbers—and mixing it with cultural pride often saves Trufflepig from political screed. But Flores, a South Texas-born writer known for publishing against the grain...is easily the author to break the mold of traditional, staid Latin magical realism. He mixes together a mulligan’s stew of Border Wall policy, Tejana markets and Norteño characters, doing so under the auspices of writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Valeria Luiselli. In short, if Trufflepig tells us anything in its 322 pages, it’s that the U.S.-Mexican Border will always be anything except \'real\' ... If there’s one book to take to the border, to read passages of aloud on both sides, I think that Flores’ debut would hold up well.
