The Gringo Champion

“Exuberant . . . [Xilonen’s] cross-cultural background has clearly given her insight into the sometimes surreal experience of being outside one’s own culture.” — The Dallas Morning News Winner of the Mauricio Achar Prize 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 tells hi