In You Must Fight Them (University of New Mexico Press, 2015) by Maceo Montoya, a short, bookish half-Mexican doctoral student returns to his hometown of Woodland, California and tries to reconnect with Lupita Valdez, the girl he worshipped in high school. First he must come to terms with her three hulking brothers and his own identity. 

Professor Montoya is a writer and visual artist who teaches courses on Chicana/o culture, the novel, creative writing and community muralism in the Department of Chicana/o/x Studies and the Department of English and its Creative Writing Program. 

View the book at the University of New Mexico Press