![]() ![]() Don’t go driving around gawking because you’re already there, man. People talk about the sprawl, and, yeah, the city is a drunk, laughing bitch sprawled across the flats in a spangled dress, legs kicked up the canyons, skirt spread over the hills, and she’s shimmering, vibrating, ticklish with light. It’s the obviousness of pointing out that the freeway looks like a ruby bracelet stretched alongside a diamond one, looks like a river of lava flowing counter to a river of champagne bubbles. It’s the Big One that’s coming to turn the city to rubble and set the rubble on fire but not today, hopefully not today. ![]() ![]() It’s a lazy hammock moon rising over power lines, over the skeletal silhouettes of pylons, over shaggy cypress trees and the spiky black lionfish shapes of palm-tree crowns on too-skinny trunks. ![]() It’s a crescent moon in a sky bruised green after the sunset has beaten the shit out of it. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. UK Kindle B08CMLCFWM, Kindle Edition, 596 pages. Written by Timothy Sexton Marian Graves The novel is dominated primarily by two characters. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. is dust and exhaust and the hot, dry wind that sets your nerves on edge and pushes fire up the hillsides in ragged lines like tears in the paper that separates us from hell, and it’s towering clouds of smoke, and it’s sunshine that won’t let up and cool ocean fog that gets unrolled at night over the whole basin like a clean white hospital sheet and peeled back again in the morning. Great Circle (Kindle Edition) Published May 4th 2021 by Transworld Digital. Great Circle Characters by Maggie Shipstead Great Circle Character List These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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