![]() ![]() In "Around the Bend," an old man with a clouded mind escapes his home and drifts to the train tracks, hoping to climb aboard an oncoming locomotive. "Jackpot" finds a schizophrenic derelict wandering into the Mother Lode Casino, hitting a $12 million slot machine windfall, and then quietly slipping away, without the money. ![]() ![]() Throughout the volume's eight tenuously linked tales, lives and fortune are lost, and the city of Reno emerges as a locus of shattered souls. While Maynard's debut collection bursts with idiosyncratic characters, the end result is an uneven affair punctuated by the occasional shimmer. ![]()
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