Author: Jan Baross
Publisher: Ooligan Press
Keywords: woman, builds, jose
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1932010149
ISBN-13: 9781932010145

Mesmerizing! Stunning! Elegant! Captivating! Powerful! Lush! A winner! Magical realism that seduces the reader from beginning to end! When Ooligan’s acquisitions committee discussed this marvelous first novel by Portland photographer/painter/dramatist Baross, the superlatives and exclamations wouldn’t stop. Word spread, and soon Ooligan’s other student publishers were waiting in line to read this novel set in a fictional Mexican coastal village. Jose is the story of Tortugina, the narrator, whose happiness and hardship are tied to the sea and to the men in her life, from h