Picadero

Carlos Jaramillo was twenty-two and about to embark on a trip to Old Havana when he found out he was Colombian-Mexican-American and not Cuban-Mexican-American, like he had thought up to that point. Carlos still went on the trip, which no longer held a homecoming significance. It was in this state of mind that he met Erislandy, a Cuban pigeon racer who�s known throughout Old Havana for dyeing his birds fluorescent colors. Picadero not only documents the tradition of Old Havanan colombofilia, pigeon racing; the relationship between Carlos and Erislandy, who he visited multiple times and viewed as a father figure; and even more so his state of mind at a moment of impasse. This colorful book is accompanied by a poem by Chicana scholar A�da Hurtado, designed by Studio Lin, and edited by Martha Naranjo Sandoval.