In her Texas Observer review of Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel by Carlos Nicolas Flores, Melynda Nuss writes on her opinion of the novel and, to some extent, its author. She begins by describing some of the “hokey, jokey” novel’s events and settings, depicting his oddball selection of dramatis personae as an ostentatious group of silly characters. Nuss writes, Flores “is clearly having fun” writing on endless tawdry details of breasts and consistent stereotypes, and she says, “His book is a black velvet painting of all things Mexican.” With a wrought-iron mariachi figure dressed in bandoliers and a sombrero that holds a shot of tequila, one can hardly miss the probes at Mexican culture. Breasts can also be found left and right
