The Deportation of Wopper Barraza - by Maceo Montoya (Paperback)

About the Book

After Wopper Barraza's fourth drunk driving violation, the judge orders his deportation and now he has to move back to Michoacán. His story unfolds as life in a rural village takes him in new and unexpected directions. We know this story from the headlines, but up to now it has been unexplored literary territory.

Book Synopsis

After Wopper Barraza's fourth drunk driving violation, the judge orders his deportation and now he has to move back to Michoacán. His story unfolds as life in a rural village takes him in new and unexpected directions. We know this story from the headlines, but up to now it has been unexplored literary territory.

Review Quotes

[An] affecting new novel about the immigrant experience.
--Tucson Weekly

A delightful, multidimensional foray into the immigration experience from both sides of the Mexican-American border.
--NewPages

Montoya flips the familiar tale of northbound immigration on its head.
--Los Angeles Magazine

Montoya's humorous yet moving critique of the United States' deportation policies avoids easy depictions of good and bad. The book features a decidedly complicated anti-hero whose journey sheds light on the lives of those who are affected when a person disappears from either side of the border.
--BuzzFeed

About the Author

Maceo Montoya is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of California, Davis, and an affiliated faculty member of Taller Arte del Nuevo Amenecer (TANA), a community-based art center in Woodland, California. He is also the author of The Scoundrel and the Optimist and The Deportation of Wopper Barraza: A Novel (UNM Press). His paintings, drawings, and prints have been widely exhibited and published.