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Review

Rating: 9

A slice of America gone forever. Yes, a land of poverty, but also of individuality expressed through living, not buying. Unrepentant losers, small business owners making a go, not getting rich, happy whores and small town cops. Despite the Canneries as backdrop, there is not a corporation as we know it to be found, and the quirky, unique, personality-rich city of Monterrey portrayed in the book seems foreign and odd, as if I were reading science fiction, not a mostly honest approximation of life during the Republican Great Depression, long before Reagan and his ilk snuffed the remaining life out this country.

Here’s to getting by and nuts to buying in.