Dreamer Paradise

Dreamer paradise

DREAMER PARADISE is a ferocious reflection on the daily life of an undocumented, gay, brown, educated, graduate degree-holding badass. Quiroz’s work exposes the struggles with self-acceptance and the dependence on documentation for validation in a country that already rejects marginalized people. This is the narrative of a gay DACA educator that is missing from the Latine bookshelf.
— Angelina Sáenz, author of Edgecliff and Maestra

This is great, important work. It is powerful, poignant, and yearning for solid ground. It is to be revisited. It is to be honored.
— Carmen Rita Wong, author of
Why Didn’t You Tell Me?: A Memoir

A heartfelt journey into the lives of DACA recipients, skillfully weaving their stories into the fabric of our current political climate. The voices of the great American young will continually sustain and usher us into an evolved, actualized nation. Quiroz’s voice here is action.

—James B. Golden, Inaugural Salinas Poet Laureate

This narrative bestows profound dignity and worth. It tenderly transforms a day laborer’s gay son into a poignant love letter. It reshapes childhood monsters into stirring shadows of Mexican identity. DREAMER PARADISE beckons us to find our place in this world.

— Moisés Zamora, executive producer and creator
of Netflix’s Selena: The Series