Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di residenza: California, USA
Istruzione: University of California, Berkeley (MFA)
University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Attività lavorative: teacher
writer
Breve biografia: Jaime Cortez is an artist, writer and cultural worker based in Oakland, CA. He was raised between Mexicali, Baja California and Watsonville, Alta California. His visual art has been exhibited at numerous venues including the Oakland Museum of California, Huntington Beach Center for the Arts and in San Francisco art spaces including Southern Exposure, The Lab, Intersection for the Arts and Galería de la Raza. Jaime attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MFA in visual arts at UC Berkeley. He has also performed at Theater Rhinoceros, Josie's Cabaret, the Cell, the SomArts Gallery, the Grasshopper Palace, the CoCo Club, Brava Theater, the Glaxa Theater and Club Axis in Los Angeles. Jaime's writing has been anthologized in numerous collections including Besame Mucho, 2sexE and Queer PAPI Porn. He has edited an anthology entitled Virgins, Guerrillas & Locas for Cleis Press (1999). He is the author of a graphic novel, Sexile (Los Angeles: 2004). Jaime has been a public high school teacher abroad (Japan), and an AIDS educator.

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Gordo di Jaime Cortez

This wonderful collection of stories, set in a migrant work camp in California, circa 1975, was a joy to read. Gordo, an over-weight Mexican boy, possibly gay is at the center of most of these tales. He is smart and curious but is also taunted and bullied, as he struggles to find his place in the world. A great look at immigrant life in Steinbeck country. This is Cortez’s first shot at fiction and he really nails it.

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Gordo di Jaime Cortez

Jaime Cortez's Gordo is one of those titles that keeps providing more rewards as readers work their way through it. The individual stories are varied, engaging, distressing, hopeful. But these stories add up to something larger. In a sense, these stories are a novel—one that takes readers through many shifts of perspective and that requires readers' assistance in pulling it into a whole. And I mean this in a good way.

Imagine a photo of a place. Cut that photo into pieces, discarding a few, but keeping most. Then use those pieces to create a mobile. Watch the pieces as they move in relation to one another, as different bits come into proximity. Ask yourself questions about the handful of pieces that are missing. That's what reading Gordo is like. And I mean that in a very good way.

The characters in Gordo are residents of the agricultural lands that make up California's Central Coast: agricultural workers and their children; documented and undocumented; kind and unkind; gay, straight, and questioning. Each story offers exactly the sort of detail and precision that readers need. Cortez creates complex characters and situations without every writing with unnecessary complexity. And, as I said above, the rewards keep coming as the stories inform one another. The further I got in Gordo, the harder it was to put the book down and the more I had to fight to keep myself from racing through stories to see what was still to come.

I received a free electronic review copy of this title from the publisher via NetGalley; the opinions are my own.… (altro)

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