"… a graphic, hilarious and violent chronicle of multiple realities that could emerge … an amazing exercise of radical imagination."—Guillermo Gómez-Peña "… this is an ambitious, energetic, and fiercely intelligent novel."—Bookforum "A fine example of alternative fiction with a strong social theme; recommended for most collections."—Library Journal, January 2006 "Atomik Aztex ... Read moreis hip, bloody, occasionally baffling and often piercingly brilliant."—Cherie Parker, Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 15, 2005 "Hilarious, poignant, and at times devastating, Foster has crafted a fine … cocktail of sublime anarchy to toss into the machine."—Rubén Martínez, author of The New Americans: Seven Families Journey to Another Country "The prose is an electrifying, eclectic phantasmagoria of Groucho's marxism, dadada, surreal and naturalcombined with double-edged intellectual/historical hysteria."—Rick Harsh, author of the Driftless Trilogy "This is one mad neighborhood carnival roller coaster ride through Aztlán, the underground, the QT … Oddball, hilarious—deep."—Marisela Norte, author of East L.A. Days/Fellini Nights "A book so heedlessly imaginative it often seems ready to burst its pages like a comic-book POW."—Emily Barton, Bookforum, December 2005 "… puts his finger on a particular nexus of World War II-era racism, factory life and the landscape of Los Angeles"—The Los Angeles Times, January 2006 Atomik Aztex was chosen the Winner of The Believer Magazine Book Award 2005!!—The Believer Magazine, March 2006 Show Less