Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.
Joe MenoWhat I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.
Joe MenoMaybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.
Joe Meno