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A legendary tattoo artist and notorious creator of trendsetting underground art, Jonathan Shaw captures the destructive addiction of love, sex, drugs, and demonic possession embodied in two people whose irresistible passions threaten to destroy them in this cult classic novel.

In the wild backwaters of Rio de Janeiro and New York, motorcycle-riding, nomadic outlaw poet Ignacio Valencia Lobos—known as Cigano—attempts in vain to curb the unhinged habits of his lover, Narcisa, a crack-smoking philosopher prostitute. Though he knows they will destroy each other, Narcisa is an exquisite poison he cannot resist. As they navigate the chaos of her downward spiral—dragged deeper by the gravity of drugs, burglaries, and violence, Cigano recounts a lov ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 495 ratings · 77 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Narcisa: A Cult Classic of Transgressive Fiction – Two Addicts in Love in Underground Rio and New York City 3.64 avg rating — 369 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vintage Tattoo Flash: 100 Years of Traditional Tattoos from the Collection of Jonathan Shaw 4.47 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist 3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vintage Tattoo Flash Volume 2 by Jonathan Shaw, Miguel Villalobos (Illustrations) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Songs to the Dead 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homeward Bound: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist (Book 2) (Scab Vendor, 2) by Jonathan Shaw, Oliver Peck (Artist), Robert Crumb (Contributor) 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sensitive Skin #13 by Bernard Meisler (Editor), Max Blagg (Contributor ), Peter Blauner (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I reminded myself that worrying is like praying for bad shit to happen.”
― Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes

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“Crazy, jingle-jangle summer days and long, steamy Carioca nights. Narcisa and I running from the cops together, merging into humid nighttime shadows, hand in hand, laughing through it all. Jingle days. Times to remember forever.”
― Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes

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“An addict with an excuse is like a monkey with a machine gun.”
― Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes

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