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Ghosts of West Baltimore

Ghosts of West Baltimore

Osborne, J. David
Simmons, David

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1940885620
ISBN13: 9781940885629
Publisher: Broken River Book
Published: Jul 26 2023
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Save the Westside, save the world


Our hero, Worm, has just been released from Sinai Hospital in West Baltimore after losing an eye and suffering a soon-to-be fatal blast of radiation. A rabbi believing himself to be the messiah plans to unleash an unspeakable evil on the same Park Heights neighborhood in which our hero has been placed by the state. Meanwhile, a predatory probation officer with a proclivity for research chemicals and ultra-violence, stalks his human caseload, terrorizing his boas as sickness rots his brain.

With a body full of ionized cells, expensive medicine that Medicaid won't cover, and a time-sensitive placement at a halfway house for critically injured felons, can Worm save the city, again, without violating the terms of his probation?

Visceral and grounded, but with a kind of ineffable strangeness wound into it. Simmons is carving out a space that feels specifically his own. - Brian Evenson

Ghosts of West Baltimore is the sequel to Ghosts of East Baltimore (Broken River Books - 2022)

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