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Desperation Road
by Michael Farris Smith
There is a reason why this book is not called Redemption Road or Mercy Road or Divine Intervention Road. This book is bleak and raw. There is desperation all over it.
It makes me think how poverty is a never-ending spiral and that makes me so sad. It makes me wonder how all of humanity cannot see that there are two sides to every coin, a front and back to the moon. We can't always see the other side but we have to have faith that it is there and that the someone that sees the other side knows the truth of it just like we know the truth of what we see.
I wonder if this book will make other people think of these things or if it is just a manifestation of where I am at in my life.
This is the first I've read Michael Farris Smith. This dude can write! Through all the bleak and raw, the words, the language is beautiful. Like this:
"Maben then tossed her cigarette and she leaned into the statute. Mary's arms above Maben's head and Maben slowly wrapped her arms around the Virgin's waist and hugged. She closed her eyes and let her weight fall against the statute and in this brilliant and anxious night she halfway expected her own miracle. Halfway expected Mary's arms to return her embrace. And then to hear her voice rise above the sounds of the natural world and sing to her some beautiful lullaby that Maben had never heard before. A melodic, spiritual song that would seep int her soul and tenderly set it free."
and contrasted with this:
"He poured the coffee down the drain and stood there watching the boy in the sprinkler and he knew that rough lives got rougher and he hated it for the girl and hated it for Maben. And he hated that there wasn't going to be a happy ending and then he wondered how much longer he was going to have to keep that shotgun loaded."
*Please just be reminded this book is gritty and may not be a good read for the sensitive soul.
It makes me think how poverty is a never-ending spiral and that makes me so sad. It makes me wonder how all of humanity cannot see that there are two sides to every coin, a front and back to the moon. We can't always see the other side but we have to have faith that it is there and that the someone that sees the other side knows the truth of it just like we know the truth of what we see.
I wonder if this book will make other people think of these things or if it is just a manifestation of where I am at in my life.
This is the first I've read Michael Farris Smith. This dude can write! Through all the bleak and raw, the words, the language is beautiful. Like this:
"Maben then tossed her cigarette and she leaned into the statute. Mary's arms above Maben's head and Maben slowly wrapped her arms around the Virgin's waist and hugged. She closed her eyes and let her weight fall against the statute and in this brilliant and anxious night she halfway expected her own miracle. Halfway expected Mary's arms to return her embrace. And then to hear her voice rise above the sounds of the natural world and sing to her some beautiful lullaby that Maben had never heard before. A melodic, spiritual song that would seep int her soul and tenderly set it free."
and contrasted with this:
"He poured the coffee down the drain and stood there watching the boy in the sprinkler and he knew that rough lives got rougher and he hated it for the girl and hated it for Maben. And he hated that there wasn't going to be a happy ending and then he wondered how much longer he was going to have to keep that shotgun loaded."
*Please just be reminded this book is gritty and may not be a good read for the sensitive soul.