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A luminous achievement of peerless authenticity, Shaky Town captures the grit and gold of working-class Los Angeles and lays down Matthews\'s marker as one of the city\'s great chroniclers..
From a teenage girl caught in the middle of a gang war, to an Irish priest who has lost his faith and hit bottom, the characters in Shaky Town live on a dangerous fault line but remain unshakable in their connections to one another.
In this masterwork of panoramic style, Lou Mathews-a former mechanic and street racer-weaves together the tragedies and glories of one eastside neighborhood in the 1980s.
Welcome to Shaky Town, a place invisible on maps and found only in the secret heart of its citizens.
Shaky Town is where you live. is where you reside.
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