Mile Zero
by Sanchez, Thomas
"Mile zero" marks the
location of Key West -- the island that defines the end of the American
road, the cultural junction where Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Afro worlds
collide. On this island, with its cruel legacy of slave trade and Latin
revolution, and its turbulent present of marijuana millionaires,
threadbare illegal immigrants, and hard-luck treasure hunters, lives St.
Cloud, an American expatriated in his own country, a fugitive from the
unresolved anguish of his generation. Chronicling St. Cloud's dangerous
reawakening, Mile Zero illuminates the inward and outward tumult of our
time in a huge, startling, and profoundly felt novel.
location of Key West -- the island that defines the end of the American
road, the cultural junction where Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Afro worlds
collide. On this island, with its cruel legacy of slave trade and Latin
revolution, and its turbulent present of marijuana millionaires,
threadbare illegal immigrants, and hard-luck treasure hunters, lives St.
Cloud, an American expatriated in his own country, a fugitive from the
unresolved anguish of his generation. Chronicling St. Cloud's dangerous
reawakening, Mile Zero illuminates the inward and outward tumult of our
time in a huge, startling, and profoundly felt novel.