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“José Builds a Woman”
First Place for Fiction
Kay Snow Literary Award
“Magical Realism” for another one hundred years. This heartfelt debut is a cinematic vision, a wonderfully entertaining, accessible story that is sure to win over critics and readers of contemporary fiction.
“José Builds a Woman” is written in the sensual tradition of magical realism. With lush prose and dry humor, Baross captures the fluid boundaries between life and death. The multi-layered saga revolves around the impenetrable passions of Tortugina, the doyenne of bad love, Gabito, the beautiful and jealous octopus diver and their son, Jose, a boy obsessed with marrying a nun.
“What a romp. Let Baross take you for a wild ride
through an extravagantly carnal Mexico of the imagination.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Bye-Bye Bakersfield”
A New Novel from Award-Winning Author Jan Baross
“Don’t tell anyone we’re Democrats,” warned Mother when we moved to Bakersfield. “And for God’s sake, don’t tell them you’re Jewish.”
BAKERSFIELD IN THE 1950s, was redneck central.
With humor and tenacity, a young Jewish girl negotiates the pitfalls of growing up as an outsider in a very strange land.
“This young Jewish narrator reminds me of Scout in
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” only with a lot more humor.”
-Joan Gratz, author and Academy Award winning film director
Joan Gratz