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100 1 a| Cortez, Jaimee| author.=| ^A1430266;

245 10 a| Gordo :b| stories /c| Jaime Cortez.;

250 a| First edition.;

250 a| First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.;

264 1 a| New York, NY :b| Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic,c| 2021.;

300 a| 226 pages ;c| 21 cm;

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505 0 a| 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.;

520 a| "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? Written with balance and poise, Cortez braids together elegantly tragicomic and inviting stories about life on a California camp, in essence redefining what all-American means"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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650 0 a| Migrant laborz| Californiav| Fiction.=| ^A631402;

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Gordo : stories / Jaime Cortez.

Author/creator	Cortez, Jaime author.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Edition	First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Publication	New York, NY : Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2021.
Copyright Date	©2021
Description	226 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects	Mexican Americans--California. --Fiction. Migrant labor--California. --Fiction.

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.
Abstract	"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? Written with balance and poise, Cortez braids together elegantly tragicomic and inviting stories about life on a California camp, in essence redefining what all-American means"-- Provided by publisher.
Genre/form	Short stories.
Genre/form	Fiction.
Genre/form	Short stories.
LCCN	2021027401
ISBN	9780802158086 paperback
ISBN	0802158080 paperback
ISBN	electronic book

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