Description
Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers, Jaime Cortez’s 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 the process broadens the scope of American literature. The semi-autobiographical stories in Gordo are set in farm worker camps and farm towns near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. In this hardscrabble environment, a young and probably gay boy called Gordo grows up.
