Jorgito lives in San Francisco's Mission District, but has not forgotten his native El Salvador. His memories of the volcanoes, his grandmother's stories, and the cornmeal "pupusas" form a patchwork of dreams that becomes a movie in his pillow.
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Beautiful Life, Oppression & Resilience
Content: Bi/multilingual
Settings: California, Central America, El Salvador, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, United States of America
Ethnicity: Salvadoran
Tribal Affiliation/Homelands: Pipil
Immigration: Immigrant/Migrant, Non-Immigrant
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: First/Native Nations/American Indian/Indigenous, Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary