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Victor Villaseñor’s Crazy Loco Love

September 22, 2008
Arte Publico Press

“Not since John Fante’s “Ask the Dust” have we been smacked in the face so vividly by a work that reveals the psychic (and aesthetic) consequences of growing up hated in California and America. This is the macabre flip side of the quaint mini-malls, beaches and scenic vistas of North County, beach-area communities that revel in their naturalistic excesses while masking their grotesque Hieronymus Bosch-like dimensions, reeling with obsessional anti-Mexican loathing.” ~The San Diego Union Tribune

Read Chapters 1 & 2

Visit Victor Villasenor HERE

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