Sunland
Subtitle: a novel
By: Don Waters
Series: West word fiction; West word fiction series
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780874179217; 9780874179224
Subjects: Drug traffic; Older people; Drugs; Prices; Pharmaceutical assistance; Grandmothers; Fiction
Description: "Sid Dulaney, in his mid-thirties, between jobs and short on funds, has moved back to Tucson to take care of his beloved grandmother. To hold down the cost of her prescriptions, he reluctantly starts smuggling medications over the border. His picaresque misadventures involve the lovable eccentrics at his grandmother's retirement village, Mexican gang threats, a voluptuous former babysitter, midnight voicemails from his exasperated ex-girlfriend, and, perplexingly, a giraffe"--Jkt. flap.