The Aztec Love God

Paperback | 30 May 1998 | Edition Number 2

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The Aztec Love God is a dark comedy about Tiofilio Duarte's climb to obscurity. Originally, young Tio wanted to perfect the comic role of the Aztec Love God, his ideal persona. Along the way, he meets Jester, an older, Caucasian comedian who makes Tio an offer he's like to refuse. Jester offers Tio an opportunity to join his act. The only condition is that he, Tio has to perform Latino stereotypes. Tio has to decide if he is going to take the blank check for easy thoughts or develop The Aztec Love God on his own.

The Aztec Love God combines humor, politics, and street knowledge. Diaz comes at the reader from all angles. His mixture of styles and influences pushes The Aztec Love God to a multi-multiculturalism.

The Aztec Love God is a vato but not too loco.

Industry Reviews

This uneven but often very funny first novel won 1998's Nilon Award for Excellence in Minority Fiction. That fact, is both limiting and misleading, for Diaz's first-person portrayal of Mexican-American standup comedian Tiofilo Duartes zips right along, merrily tossing bombs at the entertainment business, southern Californian cultural strife, and socioeducational assimilation strategies (Brother Love, a Hunter Thompson-esque high-school counselor, is especially agreeably deranged). The premise - Tio's discovery that to succeed he must perform ethnically stereotyped material - is lame, and the interpolated comedy monologues are borderline-awful. But almost everything else works in the wry "confession" of a hero who explains in juicy detail just how "My lie's been a Mexican version of Leave It to Beaver," and provides high irreverent humor in the process. (Kirkus Reviews)

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