The Deportation of Wopper Barraza
A novel by Maceo Montoya
Selected Praise
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-Tim Z. Hernandez
“I love this novel: the young lovers, the hard deals of municipio life, and the relationships breaking across la frontera and the fractures of city-barrio-rancho on the borderland grid of U.S./Mexico. Wopper Barraza is everywhere, yet he is a story never told since we are used to just remembering Mexico, not double-remembering—Mexico, U.S.A., then back again. Montoya’s dialogue is fierce, his multi-voices tender and rough-cut crystal; his characters are carved with the dark-real scalpel of Juan Rulfo and Victor Martinez. Montoya makes it look so easy to enter lives never entered. A first in Chicana/Latino letters. Wopper is our new reality—a heavy prizewinner on all accounts and in both directions.”
-Juan Felipe Herrera, California Poet Laureate
“Chicanos may seem bound to yet another century of that same old minimum wage about who we are and why here instead of there, but a hum of new building is on. Its young workers, like Maceo Montoya, are fast, talented, and as smart as you. Montoya’s Wopper is all of us who are from American neighborhoods in the West, searching for a Mexican American homeland we aren’t just deported to, but build ourselves.”
-Los Angeles Magazine
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