Review: As perfect as Marathon Cowboys
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
Beautiful, evocative writing which is a great example of the power of short stories and the novella. Characters are revealed in thumbnail sketches and even though Black is a master of a stylized, sparse writing, they are richly drawn and the relationship between the two characters, Colton and Diego, is powerful and compelling. Loved this book, it is as perfect as Marathon Cowboys and perhaps better. Sad to finish this intensely intelligent work, which brings to life the complex, shifting and porous world of the borderland.  Black is one of the best writers in the M&M genre and it is hard to think who surpasses her.