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Man oh Man oh Beauregard……
“Listen, when you’re a black man in America you live with the weight of people’s low expectations on your back every day. They can crush you right down to the goddamn ground. Think about it like it’s a race. Everybody else has a head start and you dragging those low expectations behind you. Choices give you freedom from those expectations. Allows you to cut ’em loose. Because that’s what freedom is. Being able to let things go. And nothing is more important than freedom.”
There’s Bug and then there’s Beauregard, the same man with conflicting sides within himself. One part is the loving devoted husband and father, the other is a fast car driving outlaw.
Bug thought he left his past behind, he thought he could move on and run his business and be there for his family, but he couldn’t leave the ghost of who he used to be and the memory of his father who disappeared when he needed him the most.
With mounting bills and stress, Bug cannot walk away when he is presented with the opportunity to make some money. All he must do is drive the getaway car. Bug is drowning in bills, stress and obligations and it seems like easy money, but is it?
S.A. Cosby put the pedal to the metal with this one. Blacktop Wasteland is raw, gritty, dark and action packed. It’s a character study of one man’s last-ditch effort to make a better life for his family but at what cost? It is beautifully written in vivid, raw and descriptive prose.
Thought provoking, gripping and raw. This book is not to be missed.
Thank you to Flatiron Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for and honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
