num_pages: 264
description: Distraught over the sudden disappearance of his wife Stella Zack tries to drown his grief in Tijuana where he encounters a violent scene and trying to save a stranger's life he nearly loses his own. He manages to escape in his assailants van and makes it back to the US only to find a bag of marijuana in it. Using this as an impetus to change his life Zack sets off for New York with the weed and a vintage Nikon. Through the lens of the old camera he starts rediscovering himself by photographing an America we rarely see. His journey unleashes a series of erratic hilarious and life-threatening events interspersed with flashbacks to his relationship with Stella and life in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s.A suspenseful darkly funny love story 18% Gray won both the Bulgarian Novel of the Year Award and the Flower of the Readers Award when it was first published in 2008.
language: English
title: 18% Gray
publisher: Open Letter