A review by nica00
Deep Ellum by Brandon Hobson

4.0

Well that certainly was a disconcerting fever dream of a character study. Gritty & hopeless until the last few paragraphs & even then it didn’t reach very far into any bright hope. I thought it represented well the dark, dysfunctional side of an urban Dallas where drug use & mental illness wander aimlessly. Themes of human connection, flawed childhoods, and passive living will circle about in my thoughts for a while.
It presented itself like a preliminary sketch book of characters later recycled in Hobson’s 2018 release, Where The Dead Sit Talking.