"Carla Trujillo writes with corazon about everyday people for everyday people.Her work is savvy, tough, and laugh-out-loud funny. This is the voice of the new millennium."--Sandra Cisneros
“In Faith and Fat Chances, Carla Trujillo delivers a delightful but thoughtful meditation on eminent domain and atomic experiments and the communities that struggle against them with planning meetings, lawyers, news media and, of course, magic. Pepa, Dogtown’s irreverent elder and healer, is simply unforgettable!”—Helena María Viramontes, author of Their Dogs Came with Them
"A humorously enchanting story about the inevitable forces of change on a small, hardscrabble community situated on the marginalized edges of Santa Fe … Trujillo’s voice is at once tender and true, epic and poetic. She seamlessly weaves together the essential elements of great storytelling—a timeless location and unforgettable characters forced into increasingly complex situations."----Ellery Washington, Associate Professor, Pratt Institute