FLAMING IGUANAS, 1997
"Tomato's candor is irresistible. She's carefree and goofy, yet as wise
as a Zen master, teaching us that transience isn't such a bad thing."
--The St. Petersburg Times, 6/29/97
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"... An unencumbered style reminiscent of Kerouac, Hunter Thomson, and
other traditionally male road warriors ... sexy, revved-up first novel
.... It's twenty-something jazzed-up poetic phrasings carved into a
well-crafted stylistically off-beat prose, imbibed with a very definite
'chick' attitude ....
"Lopez does Americana the raunchy way. Sort of like post-feminist R.
Crumb with humor and style. She brings the sub-conscious thought to the
surface and makes it real."
--Southern Voice, July 17, 1997
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"One of my favorite books of 1997."
--Curve, May 1999
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"Lopez really can write. Her tone has a Catcher in the Wry edge to it,
and the generous portion of goofball characters encountered on the side
of the road recall David Copperfield."
--San Francisco Bay Guardian
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"Lopez gives Tomato a kind of outlaw integrity that 'Thelma and Louise'
only hinted at. By the time she rides into San Francisco, Tomato's quest
for identity and freedom actually becomes our own."
--Book Review, San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, June 1997
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"Erika Lopez is an American original ... Lopez won't have to worry about
food stamps in the future."
--Boca Raton News, 7/11/97
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"Brilliant political irreverence ... Flaming Iguanas is a wildly
inventive and creative novel ... You've never read a novel so refreshing
and innovative. This is a very funny, philosophical first novel."
--San Francisco Bay Times, August 1997
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"So painfully funny you'll want to share some of Tomato's stories with
your best friends, but you'll guard it with your life if they ask to
borrow it."
--The Register
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"As Tomato Rodriguez rides across the United States, the reader may
adopt the take-no-bullshit attitude of the part-philosopher,
part-revolutionary."
--The Washington Blade
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"There's a sizable rebelliously tasteless portion of our reading public
who will soon want to make Lopez their cartoonist pillow queen."
--Lamda Book Report
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"It's a fun, fast and fabulous first novel."
--Fresno Bee
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"A hilarious, semi-autobiographical road novel."
--Mother Jones
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"Such raunchiness--public, published, illustrated raunchiness--belongs
too frequently to the territory of men. With Flaming Iguanas, Lopez
proves that women can be equally tasteless, lewd and flat-out
entertaining."
--Twistgrip Motorcycle Magazine, Spring 1999
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