I liked the book. I didn't at first because I got frustrated trying to keep the plethora of characters straight. I finally gave up trying yo read it like a novel and just read it like a collection of short stories, at which point I enjoyed it more.The writing was fine with occasional lovely passa...
Position: bus operator (BDOF) for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, twenty-seven years. Metro is the third-largest public transportation system in America, with more than 4,400 bus and rail operators moving one and a half million riders a day. I drive two four-and-a-half-hour...
We rushed in and found him choking on rancid foam bubbling out of his mouth. My grandmother called an ambulance. “I’ll have to go to the hospital,” she said. “You’re old enough to stay here on your own.” My mother was out with a man I’d never meet, like every man she saw r...