Title: Buy it. Read it. Give it to friends.
Product review: I first heard of Vea and his new novel on the Marc Cooper show on Pacifica Radio KPFK (90.7). The show inspired me to seek out his new novel. I finished it last weekend and am still carrying its power with me. To describe "gods go begging" as an example of a war novel or a Vietnam novel or a Chicano novel or a magic realist novel does not do full justice to the book. It is all of those and much, much more. Vea has succeeded in telling a story that I have never heard before and telling it in such a way that, to quote the last line of Frank O'Connor's classic short story, "Guests of the Nation": "And anything that ever happened me after that I never felt the same about again."Buy it. Read it. Give it to friends.
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