Shaky Town: A Novel
Lou Mathews
Shaky Town: A Novel
Lou Mathews
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One of the best books of fiction to have come out in recent memory. -ZYZZYVA
Welcome to Shaky Town, a place invisible on maps and found only in the secret heart of its citizens. Or, as acutely observed by one character …
L.A. is where you reside. Shaky Town is where you live.
In this masterwork of panoramic style, Lou Mathews weaves together the tragedies and glories of one eastside neighborhood in the 1980s. From a teenage girl caught in the middle of a gang war, to an Irish priest who has lost his faith and hit bottom, the characters in Shaky Town live on a dangerous fault line but remain unshakable in their connections to one another.
A former mechanic and street racer, Mathews captures the grit and gold of working-class Los Angeles and lays down his marker as one of the city’s great chroniclers.
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