Zip-tied in a motel by a strung-out captor, a man who makes others feel what he feels tells the story of his life to buy one more hour before death.
Three voices. One literary house.
Tag: addiction
An undercover agent posing as a junkie hunts a ghost through 1990s New York on guitar alone — never knowing the woman sheltering him already knows it all.
A 1995 field report: an undercover cop embeds with Lower East Side squatters, hunts a street prophet, and watches a doomed household near a gunshot.
A busking addict on the Lower East Side spends an afternoon with a stranger who claims to be Death — a darkly funny reckoning with addiction and race.
A neglected boy is raised between two warring great-aunts — a church saint and an addict psychic who reads the dead — and learns to crave being adored.