ASIN: B00TM4QA90
Publisher: Javelina Books
Pages: 37
A Boy who never let being fat stop him.Ignacio Antonio “Gordo” Hernandez-Macias is not quite twelve years old and lives with his Abuela Rita, actually his great grandmother, who is pushing hard at 100 years old and on top of that she is almost blind. Gordo’s parents had moved to Chicago shortly after his birth to look for work. Chicago is a large city in the United States. They left and have not bothered to come back, so he shares a little rundown house with his grandmother. Gordo is very much overweight – thus the nickname “Gordo” meaning fat in Spanish. Being fat is not considered all that bad a thing in Mexico as it is in other parts of the world. It merely means that the person ate well. A sweet story with a setting in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Gordo is an enterprising lad and while his Abuela is off doing her job as a beggar for pesos on the cobblestone streets of their ...
