Publisher's Synopsis
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.
