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Summer Reading

One big, crippling thought that makes you wonder how long John McManus has been waiting to confide it, this naturalistic first novel from the former Michener fellow and author of the short-story collections ‘Born on a Train’ and ‘Stop Breakin Down’ takes place in late-Eighties East Tennessee at the base of a ridge in the Smokies
by Shawn Badgley
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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.
by Shawn Badgley

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