A Rising Tide of People Swept Away (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781942515432)

A small boy flees a toxic family, all the way across the alley to Rip's Bar & Package Liquor Store and a vivid troupe of broken people in the Albuquerque Bosque. They hide him from his car-thief drunkard father, his cocaine-freak mother, and his ganged-up abusive brother. The boy gladly trades family for a hodgepodge of drinkers and losers. But it's bad timing. A new bridge proposed across the Rio Grande will wreck the fragile ghetto. The barflies share responsibility for the child while their Bosque crumbles. They collect misery like small change and rally to keep their neighborhood alive. Will the working poor beat City Hall and keep the kid out of the system?

Author: Scott Archer Jones
ISBN-10: 194251543X
ISBN-13: 9781942515432
Publisher: Fomite
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2016
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2018 pg. 149