A Novel
Carlos Montoya
A World War I veteran wanders the llano of New Mexico and Colorado, haunted by ghosts and searching for spiritual and familial unity.
2024 International Latino Book Award finalist
Interested in an author-signed copy?Edition Details
- Format
- Hardcover
- Length
- 316 pages
- ISBN-10
- 1733194983
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World War I veteran and family patriarch Carlos Montoya wanders the llano of New Mexico and Colorado, tormented by ghosts and struggling to achieve spiritual and familial unity. Just as the arms of the Six-Armed Cross at La Garita, Colorado, point toward a single center, the Montoya family legacy brings together the additional arms of incompatibility, intimacy, and multiple realities—both sensible and mystical.
Three generations must come to terms with what it means for a family to be broken by lies—and by truth.
Read an Excerpt
“Highway Motel” · Carlos Montoya
Published in The Write Launch , Issue 20, December 2018.
“They say the voices move quickly in the San Luis Valley, on the air, crawling over the dirt and along the highway…”
Selected Praise
“This story of a complicated man makes for compelling reading.”
“Epic novel…an introspective patriarch visits his flaws upon his family in the musing, multigenerational Carlos Montoya…”
“Beautiful—cinematic yet intimate. I love how the book moves in ripples out from the man to wider context of history and family experience. Each chapter opens the door onto a whole other court of memory.”
“Chronicler of hard and valuable lives. This is a career to watch.”
“Thank you very very much for writing this. I’m a writer too, and at my age now I’m ready to be more honest about my family’s many issues. Keep going.”