This book is a brutal expression of a family and a community, the suburbs of the prosperous city of Houston, which Brian Washington describes in this book, are full of drug dealers, sex workers, homeless people and gangs. .. Is. A father who hides himself in the midst of family problems and is in a relationship with his lover. A sister who has gathered all her strength to escape from that environment and family. Despite all her human qualities, a mother is unable to maintain a small family business. The mother whose behavior we see in Lockwood's story. He tries to help his trapped neighbors. The narrator of the story endures the bullying and taunts of his older brother Javi, a brother who sells drugs and joins the army after threatening his mother and father and dies in a car accident. This book contains thirteen short stories that are all connected in some way.
Stories that mostly take place in the suburbs of Houston and most of them are immigrants from Latin America such as Jamaica and Guatemala or Africans such as Nigerians. The narrator of the story, who is often the younger brother of the family and we know him as Nicolás, has homosexual tendencies, and we understand it completely in the story of LOCKWOOD and his relationship with his neighbor Roberto. Also, when he expresses his inclination to his brother in the story of LOT, he slaps him back. Takes.
The Short Stacks 10: Bryan Washington//Lot
