{"product_id":"tucumcari-patrick-parks-9780997292466","title":"Tucumcari","description":"A man wakes up one morning believing he has a wife who lives in Tucumcari, New Mexico. A wife he somehow remembers yet does not know. When he decides to find her, he embarks on a surreal journey through both landscape and memory. The reader travels with the narrator through sinking cities, his father's various jobs, government-designated atomic safe havens, motel rooms, cities made of only men, and interactions with people from his childhood including Boyd Delmarco, a famous radio personality whose lungs have turned to glass. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003ePatrick Parks, in this relentlessly quantum mechanical rendition of the novel, \u003ci\u003eTucumcari, \u003c\/i\u003e combines the traumatic rhythmic keenings of Philip Glass's \u003ci\u003eWorld Out of Balance \u003c\/i\u003eor\u003ci\u003e Einstein on the Beach \u003c\/i\u003ewith a deeply poignant Buster Keatonian deadpan. The book percolates and permeates through the entire electro-magnetic spectrum of mid-century modern dystopia. \u003ci\u003eTucumcari\u003c\/i\u003eaccumulates emotional heft like the sad ash that falls, layer after extinction layer, through the book, predicting red weather that is general all over the many deserts you drift through. Before you know it, you are buried alive, heartsick and sunk up to your eyeballs by this masterful precipitate of murmuring meditation.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Michael Martone, Author of Michael Martone and Winesburg, Indiana \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eEveryone wants to get away from the falling ash of this life. Everyone wants to get away from the threat of nuclear bombs, away to some far away, imagined safe place. Rootless, fugitive, we want love, a place to call home. In \u003ci\u003eTucumcari\u003c\/i\u003e, Patrick Parks takes us there in a novel so clearly written, so lucidly poetic, it breaks the heart\u003ci\u003e.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Richard Jones, author oF THE CORRECT SPELLING \u0026amp; EXACT MEANING and editor of\u003ci\u003e Poetry East \u003c\/i\u003emagazine \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What a strange and wonderful novel Patrick Parks has written! It's a road trip novel without an actual road trip-the narrator imagines a trip he will take to Tucumcari, NM, to find the woman he just remembered he married years ago-but except for floating above his bed at night or teaching English to immigrants in a city that rains ash, he almost never goes anywhere. But his mind goes \u003ci\u003eeverywhere\u003c\/i\u003e, and it's a bona fide delight to ride along with him on his mental road trip. Written in brief fragmentary sections that often read like prose poems, this is a narrative as delightfully disjointed and digressive as Sterne's \u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e and as darkly comic and magical as Kafka's \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e-David Jauss, author of Glossolalia: New \u0026amp; Selected Stories and Nice People: New \u0026amp; Selected Stories II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Parks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0997292466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780997292466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kernpunkt Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/26\/2018","brand":"Patrick Parks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46670371127551,"sku":"9780997292466","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tucumcari-patrick-parks-9780997292466","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}