The Last Great Road Bum Salh fled first to a

Salh fled first to a refugee camp on the Kenyan border and ultimately to North America to learn yet another way of life

not as a victim

and food-service kitchens of the city

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perfectionism

The Last Great Road Bum Salh fled first to aOne of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weeklys Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates prize. One of Exile in Bookvilles Favorite Books of 2020. In The Last Great Road Bum, Hctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times.