Book Review
When it comes to coming of age novels, "Manuel Luis Martinez's protagonist, Robert Lomos, is a bit different, and Martinez's first novel, Drift, is, too. Robert moves, all right -- from San Antonio to Los Angeles and back -- but his erratic path in the footprints of Martinez's expert narrative one is anything but linear." Martinez will be at the Cepeda Branch Library on Wednesday, June 4, at 7pm.
"...part martyr, and all anti-Robert (and since the 16-year-old Sizzler bus boy has stashed Dexedrin, weed, and a revolver..."
May 30, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley