Friday, May 15, 2009

almost finished reading eric garcia's new book repossession mambo, a brilliant dystopian novel set in the near future we can all recognize is around the corner. it follows the autobiography of an organ repro man who hunts and is now hunted for the return of organs people have failed to make payments on. what makes this such a great book is the actual writing, it's fast paced but very literate, almost candlereque. the story is excellent and immediately you in sympathy with what first appears to be an ugly man in an ugly time. there's some great descriptions of the job, the various tangents these repro men follow and the lifestyle they lead, but the novel comes to a brilliant conclusion as the repro man becomes the hunted. it's a clique i know but it's execution is well done and eloquent, there's some great writing here and i think you would enjoy it.

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