Book Reading! Lou Mathews for SHAKY TOWN

133 North Larchmont Boulevard,Los Angeles CA 90004

15 October, 2021

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Lou Mathews reads and discusses his newest novel, SHAKY TOWN at Chevalier's Books. ABOUT THE BOOK In Shaky Town, Lou Mathews has written a timeless novel of working-class Los Angeles. A former mechanic and street racer, he tells his story in cool and panoramic style, weaving together the tragedies and glories of one of L.A.'s eastside neighborhoods. From a teenage girl caught in the middle of a gang war to a priest who has lost his faith and hit bottom, the characters in Shaky Town live on a dangerous faultline but remain unshakable in their connections to one another. Like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, Katherine Ann Porter's Ship of Fools, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, and Pat Barker's Union Street, Shaky Town is the story of complicated, conflicted, and disparate characters bound together by place. From the Chicago Tribune:  https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-ent-biblioracle-tiger-van-books-shaky-town-20210901-afc2cu5x25h7pfavoqyupufky4-story.html Chevalier's Books is the oldest independent bookstore in Los Angeles, located in Larchmont Village.