Jaime Cortez Gordo

The first-ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville California in the 1970s. A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father.

Gordo By Jaime Cortez

Jaime Cortez is a celebrated Chicano graphic novelist visual artist writer teacher performer and LGBTQ rights activist.

Jaime cortez gordo. Electric Lit is 12 years old. Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers Jaime Cortezs humorous heart-warming and heartbreaking debut story collection based on his own real life experiences gives voice to a community of migrant farm workers in the West and in. A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father.

Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers Jaime Cortezs debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West. The first-ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville California in the 1970s. At eight years old he moved to Watsonville California.

The first-ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville California in the 1970s. 154 West 14th Street. An imprint of Grove Atlantic.

All groups and messages. As he comes of age Gordo learns. The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville California in the 1970s.

Cortez is also known for his role as an LGBT rights activist and HIVAIDS prevention work. Distributed by Publishers Group West. The reading was at the Chapel in San Francisco.

Read Gordo by Jaime Cortez online on Bookmate Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers Jaime Cortezs debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature tha. I dedicate this book to Felicitas and Felipe Cortez. Jaime Cortez is a Chicano graphic novelist visual artist writer teacher and performer.

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Cortez has been making work for decades in a variety of disciplines and métiers. Jaime Cortez Gordo Black Cat August 17 Gordo is the Winesburg Ohio of the 21st centurybut instead of revealing mid-America of the 1910s Cortez plumbs the lives of those living in a migrant labor camp in California in the 1970s through the eyes of Gordo a fat precocious nine-year-old sissy boy his words not mine. Cortezs book is an unforgettable portrait of the working-class Mexican Americans who.

In 1999 he edited the anthology Virgins Guerrillas Locas. Gordo may be Jaime Cortezs first collection of short fiction but it is hardly a debut. The stories are filled with humor hardship and heart.

Enter Jaime Cortez whose debut short story collection Gordo is set in and around the Pajaro Valley town. The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville California in the 1970s. The Jesus Donut launches this book like a.

The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville California in the 1970s. As he comes of age Gordo learns. A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the.

Cortez a Bay Area author masterfully navigates adverse conditions of migrant life while prioritizing in these stories the way people adapt to their circumstance managing to find joy and amusement love and triumph that which makes us delightfully human amid its challenge. A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. Jaime Cortezs book Gordo revolves around a sensitive kid growing up in a hypermasculine Mexican community Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Aug 19 2021 Christopher Gonzalez Share article.

The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville California in the 1970s. As he comes of age Gordo learns. A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father.

Cortezs depiction of Gordo is both joyful and heartbreaking. His collection of short stories Gordo reveals that he also possesses the eye of a photographerLike Diane Arbus or Weegee Cortez depicts warts-and-all moments of vulnerability precisely sometimes even harshly and without sentiment. Everyone has something to say in Jaime Cortezs debut.

Author Jaime Cortez reading at Litquake 2019. A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. As he comes of age Gordo learns about.

Cortez was born in the agricultural town of San Juan Bautista California to working class parents. As he comes of age Gordo learns about. As he comes of age Gordo learns about.

A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. The first-ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville California in the 1970s. A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father.

As he comes of age Gordo learns. September 16 2021 at 600pm. He is the second of three children with two.

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Jaime Cortez debut volume shares eleven stories that span the life of Raymundo aka Gordo his family and larger community working in and around Watsonville California. Jaime Cortez is the author of the story collection Gordo Photo. A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father.

Cortez makes this look easy balancing an ever-growing cast of characters their stories and ultimately Gordo finding and building his own life. Enter Jaime Cortez whose debut short story collection Gordo is set in and around the Pajaro Valley town. The first-ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville California in the 1970s.

A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. Cortezs book is an unforgettable portrait of the working-class Mexican Americans who lived there in the 1970s including the charming misfit title character who narrates most of the stories. Gay Latinos Writing About LoveFive years later under the auspices of AIDS Project Los Angeles he wrote and illustrated the bilingual graphic novel Sexile.

A young probably gay boy named Gordo puts on a wrestlers mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father.

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