"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. Ríos is an artist."—Choice
" The Iguana Killer is not the Chicano version of Catcher in the Rye--but it is close."—San Antonio Express-News
"In his cool, unassertive way, Ríos 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 Chicano--the real thing at last."—John Barkham Reviews
