The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos

✍ Scribed by Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya

• Book ID: 111906205
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 522 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781953387332

✦ Synopsis

Entrancing and sentimental, told with wit and sharp insight,The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos examines the joys and traumas of the Latinx American experience through the lens of a young man awakening to the nuances of identity, love, colonization, and home.
As Gregorio recovers from a soccer injury, he relives a decisive period of his life when he is eighteen and adrift. His parents are divorcing, his sister is estranged, and his poor goalkeeping has just cost his soccer team their most important game of the season. As a graduation present, Gregorio's defiant uncle Nico takes him to Colombia, where he is introduced to old friends, family memories, and a culture ailing after years of conflict and colonization. When they return, Gregorio follows in his uncle's footsteps and pursues employment at an art museum in Washington, D.C., where he moves into the basement of a townhouse owned by Magdalena, a Basque exile he befriends. As the year wends on and...