Gulf Dreamsis the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love for a young woman, her best friend since childhood.

- Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Gulf Dreamsis a powerful, gripping, and disturbing story of passion and betrayal, survival and vengeance, compulsion and resilience, told in arresting images and fragmented dreamlike narrative. Perez's lyrical voice and highly controlled style are unique and unforgettable.- Teresa de Lauretis, author ofThe Practice of Love and Figures of Resistance

Tejana Emma Perez is an important voice in Chicana literature. This amalgam of life history, creative non-fiction, psychoanalytic treatise and fictional and fictionalized memoirs is also a welcome addition to queer literature. Perez truly creates her ownsitio y lenguain a Chicana lesbian cultural terrain, where the boundaries between past and present and the world of dreams blur. InGulf Dreams, a Chicana dyke becomes the active subject of history working through the haunting of desire, tracking the pleasure of pain, and ultimately relating that loss to betrayal. Trapped between visions, she recounts her search for meaning through the broken body, stating, "I am my only real witness.- Gloria Anzalda, author ofBorderlands/La Frontera

Perez's Chicana lesbian characters have forever changed the landscape of Chicana literature. The text is infused with desire, with obsession. You will be pulled in by the narrator who will seduce you with words. You'll see glimpses of other stories here:The House on Mango StreetorReal Women Have Curves, but through the eyes of a jota, which changes everything.- Catrina Rueda Esquibel, author ofWith Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians