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Cortez, Jaime.
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Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
Migrant labor -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
California -- Fiction.
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Cortez, Jaime.
Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
Migrant labor -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
California -- Fiction.
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Gordo
:
stories
/ Jaime Cortez.
by
Cortez, Jaime.
Black Cat, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION COR
Subjects
Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
Migrant labor -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
California -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780802158086 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
226 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
The Jesus donut -- El
Gordo
-- Chorizo -- Cookie -- The nasty book wars -- Fandango -- Alex -- The pardos -- The problem of style -- Raymundo the fag -- Ofelia's last ride.
Summary:
His first-ever collection of
stories
, Jaime Cortez's
Gordo
is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named
Gordo
fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age,
Gordo
learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler and resident artist, uses tiny library pencils to draw murals of graffiti flowers along the camp's blank walls, the words Chicano power boldly lettered across, before she runs away from home one day with her mother's boyfriend. Los Tigres, the perfect pair of twins who show up to Gyrich Farms every season without fail, are champion drinkers until one of them is rushed to the emergency room after a brawl, bloody and slumped in a tattered easy chair on the back of a pick-up truck. These scenes from Steinbeck Country seen so intimately from within are full of humor, family drama, and a sweet frankness about serious matters-- who belongs to America and how are they treated? Cortez braids together elegantly tragicomic and inviting
stories
about life on a California camp, in essence redefining what all-American means.
Genre:
Short
stories
.
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0
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Adult Fiction
FICTION COR
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Adult Fiction
FICTION COR
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