Product Description FIRST PLACE FOR FICTION "Jose Builds a Woman"- first place for fiction. Urusla LeGuin says,"Let Baross take you on a wild ride through an extravagantly carnal Mexico of the imagination. A winner! Mesmerizing! Stunning! Elegant! Captivating! Powerful! Lush! Magical realism that seduces the reader from beginning to end! The most incredible love story imaginable. URSULA K. LE GUIN says: "What a romp! Let Baross take you for a wild ride...through an extravagantly carnal Mexico of the imagination." JOSE BUILDS A WOMAN is a camel gallop through one of the most outrageous love stories ever told. The multi-layered saga revolves around a sensual outcast, Tortugina, the queen of bad love and Gabito, a jealous octopus diver. Tortugina’s pursuit of a forbidden dream endangers everything: her life, Gabito’s life, the life of her husband and her son, Jose, a boy obsessed with marrying a nun. Against all odds, through murder and extraordinary sexual encounters, Tortugina never abandons her dream. About the Author Award winning novelist Jan Baross is also a film maker, screenwriter and artist. She has a masters in media and has taught filmmaking at OSU. www.janbaross.com

Jose Builds a Woman

Literature & Fiction

Baross, Jan

Literary

Baross Media

Sylvia: The 100-Year-Old Assassin

Humor & Satire

MPolo Press

"San Miguel has been called a magical city. And now it has its own delightful talisman in this gem of a book by Jan Baross. If you want to know more about the people, the places and the essence of San Miguel, I can think of no better introduction than these lively, insightful, well crafted sketches and commentary. Jan’s instincts are impeccable." -Mark Saunders, author of "Nobody Knows the Spanish I Speak"

Ms. Baross goes to Mexico: San Miguel de Allende

Travel

Mexico

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 her demanding father and dead lover to her cruel, abusive husband and beautiful, sensitive son.

Ooligan Press

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Biographies & Memoirs

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Community & Culture

Independently published

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