McOndo fiction reports this contemporary, lived "urban" experience of such an economically unidirectional, Gringo business–Latin labour "work relationship"; of what it is to be a Latin American man and a Latin American woman employed in a McJob in an unmagical city in an unmagical country pervaded with foreign consumerism and its irreconcilable discontents. Furthermore, unlike Magical Realism fiction, McOndo fiction reports the social consequences, at home (in "Latinoamérica") and abroad (in "el Norte") of this Anglo–Latin relationship; the exemplar book is the "McOndo" (1996) short-story anthology.