AS #17 Josh Peterson
‘Granite City Blues’
Perfect bound, 126pp.

‘Granite City Blues’ is an epic journey to the dark heart of modern America. Unflinching, raw and searingly honest. Mature readers only.

“My more-or-less gay friends would often confess a lot of formerly-unspoken details to their pasts when smoking meth in front of and sometimes with me while I had been living with one of them. I think their particular mental imbalances coupled with the obstruction of their addiction was what made them deluded enough to be convinced they could pass as straight to acquaintances. What was occasionally supposed to be a quick round before hitting the bars would sometimes turn into extended spun-out conversations beneath the harsh kitchen fluorescent.”