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Elizabeth Gonzalez James: The Bullet Swallower (Hardcover, 2024, Simon & Schuster)

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, …

Beautiful work

“It is a hard thing to be a good man”

I’m just such a sucker for duel timelines and western backdrops. Sprinkle in a cursed family name and a Mephistopheles-type and I am hooked, line, and sinker.

The prose is delicious. Everything about it is just a delight on my eyes. Once I got this in the mail yesterday, I could hardly keep it down, and isn’t that endorsement enough?