Get Started On You Must Fight Them: A Novella And Stories Designed And Illustrated By Maceo Montoya Issued In Paper Edition

sped through this and really enjoyed each of the pieces, My favorite would

have to be the novella, but each of the following pieces gave different experiences with Latino Ness and left you pondering or wanting a bit more from story.
It was a very visceral read, . Montoya has a wonderful voice I look forward to reading more of, In the novella You Must Fight Them, a short, bookish halfMexican doctoral student returns to his hometown of Woodland, California, and tries to reconnect with Lupita Valdez, the girl he worshipped in high school.
But in order to date Lupita, he must first fight her three hulking brothers, Attempting to make sense of his unusual predicament, he ruminates on his many insecuritieshis definition of manhood and the ambiguities of his mixedrace identity.


In this collection we meet characters navigating the difficult situations that arise when different worlds collide, from a professor teaching a course on Latino gangs who makes the unwise decision to invite two former rival gang members as guest lecturers, to an artist threatened by the twin sons of his poor white neighbor.
Though this memorable cast of characters faces unique quandariesand deals with these problems in questionable waystheir stories are driven by a desire to set the record straight.
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