by Daniel Orozco
ISBN: 9780865478534
The title story in this collection is darkly funny and will be recognized as such by anyone who has spent time in cubeville. I liked this story the most.
It isn’t that everything was a let down after reading the first story. I was drawn to the workers in “The Bridge”, disturbed by the narrator in “I Run Every Day” and appreciated the un- and intentional humor in “Officers Weep”. “Somoza’s Dream” is by far the longest story in the book, and in it Orozco shows what he can do with shifting perspective, but it didn’t get to me the way some of the others did. Presidente in Exile’s story wasn’t as compelling to me as the bridge painter’s, or the warehouse worker’s, or the temp’s. Orozco has a knack for identifying grinding foolishness in the modern workplace.
I’ll be curious to see what else Orozco writes.
