Title: This generation's James Baldwin?
Product review: If James Balwin were thirtysomething, part of the hip-hop generation, living in a post 9/11 era this is a novel he might well have written. Rux's post-apocalyptic tale/myth is really at its core a journey of self-discovery told in a prose style that's poetic, at times dense, really heady, yet absolutely lyrical, even mesmerizing. If, like me, you are a reader who is dazzled by the simple beauty of words, Rux is the wordsmith for you: it is as if he labored over ever single sentence, agonizing until he found the precise sequence of words all to a positively mellifluous effect. This potpourri of greek mythology, urban reality and verbal gymnastics is a difficult but thoroughly enjoyable read. Half the fun is figuring out what is real and what is imagined.
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