100 Years of Cilantro, by Sebastian
One Hundred Years of Cilantro is a memoir chronicling Sebastian’s time in Mexico with his teenage boyfriend, Bobby. Set in 1983, it follows their life in the remote village of Yelapa, a speck on the west coast about twenty miles south of Puerto Vallarta. They arrive in Sebastian’s battered 1964 Ford—complete with a hole in the radiator—and leave weeks later on a road trip across Mexico that descends into a nightmarish (and, in hindsight, hilarious) string of breakdowns.
As Sebastian teeters on the edge of sanity, Bobby finds the chaos amusing—until even he’s ready to abandon ship. Along the way, they encounter a cast of unforgettable characters: two little fat mechanics, a bartender with a monster dildo, a burnt-out bus driver, and a wacky welder, to name a few.
Do they make it to Houston and the comfort of Sebastian’s mom’s kitchen?
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