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"[Joshua] Mohr's first novel is biting and heartbreaking, a piercing look at the indelible scars a violent past has left on a young man named Rhonda. The disturbing narrative engine - Rhonda's renaming and reimagining of the world around him to fit into his damaged logic - keeps the story creepily moving as it touches on homebrew prison wine and Rhonda's friendship with his childhood self, little-Rhonda. Mohr uses punchy, tightly wound prose to pull readers into a nightmarish landscape, but he never loses the heart of his story; it's as touching as it is shocking." -Publishers Weekly (Starred) "Joshua Mohr's scorching, jacked-up prose nearly burned my eyes out; and his main character, a young man known as Rhonda, is one of the most troubled and heartbreaking people you will ever encounter in literature." -Donald Ray Pollock "This bold new writer has an uncanny gift for tapping our most dangerous desires. Open the trap door at the bottom of the dumpster and prepare yourself to enter a wonderland where violence may pave your path to strange love and potent healing." -Melanie Rae Thon "A startling debut. Joshua Mohr takes us to a different city, but a city we know, populated by the dark side of ourselves." -Stephen Elliott |
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