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Susan Wheeler Record Palace
Graywolf Press 2005 1555974201 / 9781555974206 Paperback Very Good
"'() In hazed heat, mid-September, walking north from Chicago’s Loop, telling myself I was exploring the new life, I dogged as much for tonic, gin. A sign swung beside a basement door, in, out, mirage: Record Palace: J ZZ. Inside I found Acie. Cindy, a lean, lonely white girl, has come to Chicago to study art history, to be anywhere but where she came from—tract housing in Thousand Oaks, California: mock-stucco buildings: ''incessant sun and incessant sunniness of every blonde girl.'' Record Palace, littered with cans of malt liquor and remnants of past meals, also has boxes upon boxes of records—all jazz. And it has Acie, ''big on all sides, top included. A hairnet, the hair below the net long and limp with oil. Green stretch pants, flip-flops, a thin black U-tank taut across Sumo folds.'' Cindy knows she doesn’t belong, and this is why she stays. Cindy’s determination leads to a tentative friendship with Acie, and she becomes a familiar, if not fully understood, presence in the st'''' ID: mon0000072320"
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