“Montoya proves that he is a master of the short form with these gripping, evocative, and deftly crafted narratives of the Chicano experience.”—Daniel A. Olivas, El Paso Times
“Montoya writes with a marvelous economy of prose, parsing comedy and pathos only paragraphs apart. . . . In its realism about the devastating strength of family ties and the tenuousness of romantic passion, You Must Fight Them is a wise and entertaining tale.”—Pasatiempo
“Montoya’s short stories are tight, witty, and insightful. . . . Like Joyce’s Dubliners, a universality comes blazing through, as if by analyzing one microscopic corner of contemporary California, we can feel bonded to and amazed by the lives of others who cross our paths daily.”—NewPages.com
“A heartbreaking collection of stories spun from the interior worlds of men, where the struggle is to surface for breath by navigating through personal grief, vulnerability, and pain. Original and poignant, these are the complex representations of Latino masculinity and Latino identity we have been yearning to read.”—Rigoberto González, author of Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
“Maceo Montoya’s brilliant talent is right up there next to Sherman Alexie’s. His humorous insight into culture and masculinity leaves us suspended in a web of broken family values tarnished by petty street codes. This is a major writer.”—Ernesto Quiñonez, author of Bodega Dreams
