Simple

by Mark Wallace

Kevin Lloyd is thirty-four years old with down syndrome. Having to depend on his mother for everything. Living in the same house his whole life, the neighborhood is one big family. Working at a local grocery store, his mother doesn’t arrive to pick him up. Take the journey with Kevin, looking for answers to what happened to his mother.

50 pages, Paperback

Published October 12, 2007

About the author

Mark Wallace was born in 1962 in Princeton, New Jersey and grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. Between the ages of 8 and 17, with his father and brother he drove across the United States to Southern California on camping trips every summer, once going by way of Mexico City and once by way of Lake Banff, and he has spent time in all 48 of US mainland states.

The numerous bad jobs he has worked since the age of 15 are distinguished not by working class physical labor but by the low paid tedium of the contemporary world’s bureaucratic nightmare.

He received his Ph.D. from the State University at Buffalo with his dissertation The Gothic Universe in the Fiction of Paul Bowles and William Burroughs. He worked at Buffalo as a student assistant to Charles Bernstein on "The Wednesdays At Four Plus" reading series.