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005			20211230100414.0
008			210610t20212021nyu 000 1 eng
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035			_a(OCoLC)1202746211
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043			_an-us-ca
092			_aCORTEZ, _bJAIME
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aCortez, Jaime, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGordo : _bstories / _cJaime Cortez.
250			_aFirst edition.
250			_aFirst Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bBlack Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a226 pages : _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aThe 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMexican Americans _zCalifornia _vFiction. _9331968
650		0	_aMigrant labor _zCalifornia _vFiction.
655		7	_aShort stories. _2lcgft _91945
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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