ASIN: B005MRSXPA
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 129
The novel relates two weeks in the life of an ordinary everyman who is barely treading water in an alienist world where all inhabitants live for the next score. The setting is in the cross-border towns of San Diego and Tijuana where the narrator etches out an nightmarish existence straight out of an Hieronymus Bosch painting. The characters, and there are many, are fetid souls who are constantly sizing each other up in predatory stances, looking for the next most available exploitation. It is a macabre abstraction of the worst aspects of human nature, yet Blasini expertly handles the dark humor with measured tenacity to get to the next event...in short, once the reading has started, it's hard to put it down. The author takes the reader into a world they don't want to enter - but when the story is finished, we are glad we made the journey and had someone like Blasini by our side as a ...
