Border Run

by Shya Scanlon

The year is 2112. Jack Lightning runs an illegal immigration theme park in Arizona, not far from the Mexican border. While preparing for an annual fair on the grounds of his park, his ex-girlfriend shows up with a stranger who asks for help smuggling a real illegal alien into the country--the clone of Che Guevara.

236 pages, Paperback

First published July 17, 2012

About the author

Shya Scanlon's work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Literary Review, New York Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, Opium Magazine, and others. His book of prose poetry, In This Alone Impulse, was published by Noemi Press in January, 2010. His novel Forecast will be launched by Flatmancrooked on November 15th, 2010. He received his MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.

Reviews

[Kelsie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Check out my full review at the Puerto del Sol Blog.

[Jamie Grefe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review at Big Other: http://bigother.com/2012/08/26/review...

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

Corruption. Family. And clones. Nice.

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