Manuel Gonzales’ debut collection was given a full-page, review in the recent “Fresh Voices” issue of New York Times Book Review. Reviewer Aimee Bender raved: “Gonzales’s concerns are as real as can be, but his comfort in different lexicons, and weirdnesses, all as ways to shape very human dilemmas, is strong…When the bedlam of the moment is allowed to spill into the incredible sureness of the prose, these stories ring and resound.” Riverhead published the book January 10, 2013.