Jan Baross

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About Jan Baross

Jan Baross is a documentary film producer/director, animator, a screenwriter, librettist, playwright, film critic, journalist, painter. She has an MA in Communication and has taught filmmaking OSU.
"Jose Builds a Woman" is her first novel and has won First Place for Fiction, The Kay Snow Awards.

Her second book is an illustrated travel guide to Paris, "Ms. Baross Goes to Paris." "Ms. Baross Goes to Mexico" will be released in 2013. She began traveling at age fifteen and has never stopped documenting her travels through writing and art.

She is at work on her second novel: The Bakersfield Diaries.

Website:janbaross.com

A few Reviews of "Jose Builds a Woman" by Jan Baross

-"Let Baross take you on a wild ride through the extravagantly carnal Mexico of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, author Left Hand of Darkness-

-"The most evocative work of Latin American style fiction since One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez"

"Jose Builds a Woman" is simply the best book I have ever read." -Writers on the Edge.

"Baross's tightly structured plot moves rapidly and, like a well-crafted screenplay, turns on credible and genuinely surprising reversals at just the right moment each time. Expertise and sophistication at this level of storytelling is remarkable. It makes one hunger for the next novel".- Jewish Review

"Tortugina is a heroine for the ages. Her story is about a commitment to love and honor and self-respect against all odds and along the way it's a wild trip to the Mexico of our dark northern dreams." Joanna Rose-Author: Little Miss Strange.

"One of the most beautiful, honest novels about men women, lovers, mothers and sons, life and death, that you'll ever be privileged to read. Baross has a gift for tender beauty on the page. I can't remember when I last enjoyed a book this much." Molly Gloss, author of Jump Off Creek

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Jose Builds A Woman May 26, 2012

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FIRST PLACE FOR FICTION

A winner! Mesmerizing! Stunning! Elegant! Captivating! Powerful! Lush! Magical realism that seduces the reader from beginning to end!

URSULA K. LE GUIN says:
"What a romp! Let Baross take you for a wild ride...through an extravagantly carnal Mexico of the imagination."

JOSE BUILDS A WOMAN is a camel gallop through one of the most outrageous love stories ever told. The multi-layered saga revolves around a sensual outcast, Tortugina, the queen of bad love and Gabito, a jealous octopus diver. Tortugina’s pursuit of a forbidden dream endangers everything: her life, Gabito’s life, the life of her husband and her son, Jose, a boy obsessed with marrying a nun. Against all odds, through murder and extraordinary sexual encounters, Tortugina never abandons her dream.

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Ms. Baross Goes to Cuba Aug 21, 2017

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From a recent literary tour to meet Cuban writers, Jan Baross has produced “Ms. Baross Goes to Cuba”. Aside from the delightful sketches and travel tips, she includes her experience of living with a Cuban family and witnessing their daily struggle to survive under the repressive regime.
Ms. Baross says, “People asked me if I liked Cuba and I tell them the most beautiful thing about Cuba was the resilient family I got to know. Their hearts were beautiful.”
Many of her iconic Cuban images found their way into her "Cuba Coloring Book” for children to get to know Cuba.

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Ms Baross Goes to Mexico Jun 11, 2013

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"San Miguel has been called a magical city. And now it has its own delightful talisman in this gem of a book by Jan Baross. If you want to know more about the people, the places and the essence of San Miguel, I can think of no better introduction than these lively, insightful, well crafted sketches and commentary. Jan’s instincts are impeccable."

-Mark Saunders, author of "Nobody Knows the Spanish I Speak"

Ms Baross Goes to Paris Jun 1, 2012

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A charmingly illustrated dinning guide to Paris with black and white sketches of Paris scenes, restaurants where we ate and people whom we met when I lived in Paris with Henry Miller's ex-chef.

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