Published posthumously in 1980 by the author’s mother, A Confederacy of Dunces was labeled by the New York Times Book Review as “nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”
BOOKS I LOVE -- THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN AMERICANS -- CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ
Contemporary IssuesAlma and Arturo Rivera move from Mexico to Delaware so their daughter Maribel can attend a special school that will help her recover from a severe brain injury. As they struggle to survive in a new land, the Riveras move into an apartment complex occupied by Latin Americans who came to live in the US under vastly differing circumstances.