The Iguana Killer: Twelve Stories of the Heart
Colorful, hurtful, as real as legend, this book provides a wonderful new access to a large but mostly unperceived culture and will loom large in any approach to the emerging art of the Mexican worldview in English. Rios is an artist. --ChoiceIn his cool, unassertive way, Rios taps many moods, keeping a controlled but flexible rein on the emotions of his characters and their experiences. These are not Anglo stories or Mexican stories but the unique amalgam we call Chicanothe real thing at last. --John Barkham ReviewsThe Iguana Killer is not the Chicano version of Catcher in the Ryebut it is close. --San Antonio Express-News