Set in the American Southw est, forty miles north of Ju rez, Casey Gray's ambitious, tragicomic, and ultimately redemptive novel follow s a group of customers and employees through the tw enty-four hour w ork cycle as they seek comfort and sustenance inside of the cinderblock w alls of a classic American institution-The Superstore. On the eve of the company president's visit to the store, a manager's drunk text to a cow orker leads to a series of consequences as brutal as they are w ide-ranging- Everyone around him w ill be affected. W ith a cast of characters featuring Ernesto, a local gang member struggling to choose a job pushing carts over a desultory life as a drug dealer; W ilma, a grandmother w orking double shifts to support her family; and Keith, a high school student w ith a penchant for filmmaking, Gray offers a startlingly humane, utterly contemporary portrait of life on the suburban fringe. A vision of an America barely getting by and assaulted by crime, corruption, and exploitation in all of its manifestations, Discount is nevertheless a triumphant and bighearted novel that marks the arrival of a new voice w e w on't soon forget.
Dimensions: 154 x 226 x 24
Author: Casey Gray
ISBN: 9780715650394
Format: Paperback
Pages: 380