The Elegant Variation: GUEST REVIEW: CHICANO By Richard Vasquez

“In 1970, Doubleday did something that was rather unusual for a major press at the time: it published a novel by a Mexican-American author. That author, the late Richard Vasquez, was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times who had toiled for a decade in writing his multigenerational family saga, Chicano. Rayo, the wildly successful Latino imprint of HarperCollins, has reissued this landmark novel in honor of its thirty-fifth anniversary. As Rubén Martí­nez notes in his enlightening and provocative introduction, Chicano had long been out of print despite its importance within the relatively young canon of Mexican-American literature. Martí­nez tells us that prior to Chicano, the only other Mexican-American novel was José Antonio Villareal’s Pocho which Doubleday also published””in 1959. It was through Vasquez’s daughter’s efforts that Rayo has reissued this noteworthy novel.”

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