New York: Black Cat/Grove Atlantic Press, New York, (2021). SIGNED - The author's first book of short fiction, a collection of interrelated stories which use humor to shed light on the lives of farmworkers in California's central valley and also on the life of a young boy as he struggles to come to terms with his father's expectations of manhood. Cover praise from Sandra Cisneros, Rabih Alalameddine and Rebecca Solnit who comments "What if it were possible to tell stories about farmworkers and Latinx rural people with hilarity, queerness, tenderness and poetic precision? What if Jaime Cortez existed and had a book coming out and you were fortunate enough to read it?" SIGNED on the half title page and stamped with a picture of Cortez saying "tell your story." Named a best book of the year by NPR, finalist for the Lambda award and more. 226 pp. ISBN: 978-0802158086.