"... readers into the brash and the un-P.C. may enjoy this coupling of sex and identity politics. "-Publishers Weekly
   "Vega Yunqué writes this satirical novel in the form of an ethnic chick-lit memoir.  ...he never  lacks for ideas. Recommended for most fiction collections, with a caveat for readers who blush easily." - Library  Journal
 Coming in July to Your Bookstore from the author who brought you Omaha Bigelow
                      Rebecca Horowitz, Puerto Rican Sex Freak
     What does it say about America when a middle-class young woman dissatisfied with her mixed ethnicity decides to convert to being Puerto Rican? That is exactly what red-headed Rebecca Lynn Horowitz does. A pregnancy prevention social worker to Latina teens, living a fairly sedate life in the middle class neighborhood of Brooklyn's Park Slope our heroine undergoes a transformation such as you've never read. At a party in the summer of 2000 she meets Charlie Maisonet, a Puerto Rican dandy, and her biological clock starts ticking twice as fast. Through the twists and turns of her romance with Charlie, she moves to his pad in the East Village, becomes Zoraida Delgado, a Puerto Rican exotic dancer, and begins living la vida loca.
   Join the author as he once again explores the environs of this pseudo-bohemian Manhattan playground, bends the rules of novel writing and satirizes the memoir, sexual politics, gender roles, and the pretense of our society. He even throws in his own photos of some of the places in the East Village that the characters frequent, including Katz Delicatessen, The Sunshine Theater, Two Boots and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Are they really his photos or are they Zoraida's, a photography and film enthusiast?
   Oh, the novel also addresses the issue of the Iraq War in a most ingenuous way.
   And she has a superhero who helps her?  Well, a superheroine. 
   No, dummy!   She's not a dope fiend. You know: like a girl superhero.  But it's a surprise. 
                                 From The Overlook Press in July 2008.