Shaky Town Av Lou Mathews

<p><strong>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS</strong></p><p><strong><em>"L.A. is where you reside. Shaky Town is where you live."</em></strong></p><p>Welcome to Shaky Town, a place invisible on maps and found only in the secret heart of its citizens.</p><p>In this masterwork of panoramic style, Lou Mathews-a former mechanic and street racer-weaves together the tragedies and glories of one eastside neighborhood in the 1980s. From a teenage girl caught in the middle of a gang war, to an Irish priest who has lost his faith and hit bottom, the characters in <em>Shaky Town</em> live on a dangerous fault line but remain unshakable in their connections to one another.</p><p>A luminous achievement of peerless authenticity, <em>Shaky Town </em>captures the grit and gold of working-class Los Angeles and lays down Matthews''s marker as one of the city''s great chroniclers.</p>