<b>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS</b></p><i><b>"L.A. is where you reside. Shaky Town is where you live."<br></b></i></p><p>Welcome to Shaky Town, a place invisible on maps and found only in the secret heart of its citizens.<br></p>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. 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 <i>Shaky Town</i> live on a dangerous fault line but remain unshakable in their connections to one another.</p>A luminous achievement of peerless authenticity, <i>Shaky Town </i>captures the grit and gold of working-class Los Angeles and lays down Matthews's marker as one of the city's great chroniclers.</p></p><p></p>
