Review: The author rips right into it. Hilarious and poignant.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
In true Swisher style, the author rips right into it with gloriously well-rounded personalities, stunning descriptions, and some even more colourful characters.Bridge McCoy is no ordinary middle-aged guy. He's just trying to make a peaceable living while his heart mends from his divorce. He's lived among dives, ghost towns and bars, and now he's looking for a place that will not change. Chancing on Lost City, an almost ghost town since the mine closed, he rents a store selling western art. But then he decides to become a writer because it's got to be better than working in a grocery store. And it is.So Bridge bumbles his way to bachelorhood, making vow after vow. None of which he keeps for long. Like he vows he will never love again, or own another car. He promises the old and barely functioning lampposts he will do everything in his power to make sure this town does not change. But he's trying to avert change driven by the future in this small New Mexican town.The not-so-poor author is almost contentedly living among the dust and the grime, but change is inevitable.Bridge and his mate, Stoops, spend most of their time reminiscing over old bar music, alternating between Tequila and coffee. So he meets Vivian. She's a stickler for time in the This Isn't Heaven Café. From their friendship, Bridge realises he loves this woman. But can he tell her?`Tell her you love her. Just tell her,' the advice given him over and over by Stoops.But when you've lost the touch in saying `I love you', how do you find it again? And so Bridge's big love for Vivian continues...I thoroughly enjoyed the cameos of Bridge's daily life; his strangely endearing gait: the colourful world of gays, tourists, artists and local characters.Refreshingly touching and funny read.I received an Arc for an honest and unbiased review.