The award-winning debut novel by young Mexican author Aura Xilonen, The Gringo Champion is a thrillingly inventive story about crossing borders that the Los Angeles Review of Books called one of the must-read books of 2017.
Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival.
He crosses the Rio Bravo, like so many others, to reach the promised land.
And in a barrio like any other, in some gringo city, this illegal immigrant.
