Status Updates From Jamaica Plain (Jim Grant Th...

I found it at the little free library I just had to

I surrender. This isn't fun to read anymore and I'm maybe a quarter of the way through. My mortality is staring me in the face.

Does he actually have a No Entry sign tattooed above his ass? I gave it the benefit of the doubt when I first saw it mentioned, figuring I must have misread.

Immediately followed by a homophobic joke and a "call it sexist, but..."

"They're not going to make you a police spokesman, then." "It's spokesperson in the UK now." "Here too, but fuck 'em, I say." Charming bit of character development.

Is every cop Irish? And past tense reference to Whitey Bulger as a fugitive establishes the time period.

I have no idea when this is supposed to take place. I assumed it was modern, but there's IRA donation jars in a bar and anti English sentiment directed towards (or imagined by) our dashing hero on all sides.

"You need to get clean too?" Hissing spray filtered her voice to a whisper. "No. I need to get dirty."

"Grant stood in front of him and slightly off-center to avoid being kicked in the gonads." Pure poetry.

I have a feeling I'm not gonna like this one bit...