sentences:  It was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (General Nonfiction).Tobar has been an adjunct professor at Loyola Marymount University and Pomona College, was an assistant professor at the University of Oregon's school of journalism and communication, and is currently an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine.Tobar's "The Tattooed Soldier" was published in 1998.