Starred Review. "...needle-to-skin candor...courageously forthright...every teen concerned about gangs will learn profound lessons from this frank and demanding memoir." - Booklist
"Rodriguez tells an honest, direct story." - Publishers Weekly
"...brilliantly jagged sequel...Raw, searing reading from start to finish." - Kirkus Review
"Rodriguez's life story is astonishing... It takes a heart broken open by a lifetime of sorrows to write with this wisdom and compassion. It takes a visionary to use this knowledge in service to those the world despises - troubled youth, the homeless, the incarcerated, the poor, the migrant - to be called back for those you love." - Sandra Cisneros, author of Caramelo and The House on Mango Street
"This is a man who understands that 'giving back' is a natural thing to do - and does it in spades. My respect for his metamorphosis can only be described as awe." - John Densmore, bestselling author of Riders on the Storm
"Two decades ago Luis Rodríguez became a superhero in Chicano literature with his survivor's story of a gangbanger youth. Here, again, he beautifully details his not-so-ordinary life, its tragedies and graces, but now as a son, husband, father, a worker, journalist, and successful author. With It Calls You Back, Rodriguez maps out his activist past and leads us into the future. Adelante!" - Dagoberto Gilb, author of The Flowers
