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Echo Park |
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If you can make your way past Echo Park's overly-rich cast of colorful characters, you'll find a witty and playful first novel of continuous interest. Buddy B. Young is a devoted peeping Tom whose house at the edge of Echo Park in Los Angeles affords him perfect vistas for "bird watching." His alter ego, Mr. Peepers, is a Bausch & Lomb telescope with a foul mouth and a dirty mind, who offers his unsavory opinions whenever Buddy is in a mood to listen. Hoping to ward off a lingering depression, Buddy rents a lower floor of his house to a mysterious gay social club who dub their new meeting place, "The Armpit Lounge." When Buddy and one of his tenants, DeNile Nelson, find a badly beaten woman at the base of a tree near the house, their all-male household is turned upside down. Over the next few weeks, Rosario (who goes by "Chara") heals her own wounds with Santeria herbs, begins to cook fantastic Mexican meals for Buddy, befriends even the chauvinist Mr. Peepers, and gives no indication of moving out. With impressive cultural breadth and verbal facility, Steve Scott weaves a convoluted tapestry of L.A. life.--Regina Marler
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