Gordo : stories
/ Jaime Cortez
- New York : Black Cat , 2021
- 226 p. ; 24 cm
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.
English
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Mexican Americans---Fiction---California Migrant labor----Fiction Short stories