Calling Out Tapa dura - 2006

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“Meadows displays strong narrative technique as she brings the disjointed culture of Mormon-ruled Salt Lake City and a group of disjointed 20-something Latter Day Sinners into high relief…a writer to watch.”
— Kirkus Reviews

"Rae Meadows' novel is a sexy, confident, totally winning debut...she brings the sordid world of the escort business into affecting and often hilarious relief. [She] is a shining talent."
–Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy

I recognize these dreamers and fallen angels from the books of Joan Didion and Hubert Selby and Denis Johnson, and here they spring to life in an unexpected place – the Great Salt Lake, the onetime American Holy Land that still draws wayward pilgrims. They are at once desperate and aspiring, lonely and hopeful: an escort making just a few more dates to pay for a root canal, a jack Mormon trying to impress a girl in a strip club by recounting the origins of his faith. In her own rush toward oblivion, our clearheaded heroine navigates among them without pity, but with a grace that ultimately make this a story not of loss, or sin, but of redemption.”
–Mark Sundeen, author of Car Camping and The Making of Toro