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    Smoke City
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    Smoke City

    By Keith Rosson

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    2019 IPPY Award Silver Medalist

    2019 IBPA Ben Franklin Award Silver Medalist

    Powell's Books Best Fiction of 2018

    "Rosson is a talent to be watched." - Jason Heller, NPR

    Marvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He's compelled to volunteer at the local Children's Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week.

    Oh, and he's also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Thérage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc's pyre in 1431. He's just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it's ever been . . . but how will he find her?

    When Marvin heads to Los Angeles to locate the woman who may or may not be Joan, he's picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic painter traveling to his ex-wife's funeral. As they move through a California landscape populated with "smokes" (ghostly apparitions that've inexplicably begun appearing throughout the southwestern US), each seeks absolution in his own way.

    In Smoke City, Keith Rosson continues to blur genre and literary fiction in a way that is in turns surprising, heartfelt, brutal, relentlessly inventive, and entirely his own.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJan 23, 2018
    ISBN9781946154057

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    • 4/5
      Marvin is old, much older than the life he's currently living, that of a 57 year old record store owner with a mysterious and seemingly endless supply of mint first editions. For this is not the only life he has lived. Ever since he lit the pyre that burned Joan of Arc in 1431, he keeps reincarnating, forced by the Curse into a eternity of miserable lives to atone for his sin. But this time, Marvin saw something he's never seen before: a woman on a TV reality show says she's a reincarnation of Joan of Arc. Convinced this is his way to seek the forgiveness he needs to end the Curse. As he sets off to travel to Los Angeles and meet her, Marvin meets two other drifters, each seeking their own version of forgiveness...This is the second book by Keith Rosson that I've read, and I enjoyed it even more than the first one. This story takes a decidedly original take on reincarnation and atonement, and tells it through a hard to love but ultimately quite touching set of characters. A great read.
    • 5/5
      I received a free advance e-copy of this book and have chosen to write an honest and unbiased review. I have no personal affiliation with the author. ‘Smoke City’ starts out at a slow pace and seemed to be a little confusing at the beginning as the author backgrounds the story and develops the characters in order to familiarize the reader with each character. Stick with it as once the story gets going the different stories of each character come together and merge into a very unique and interesting plot. A little strange, a little offbeat, a little quirky but a satisfying adventure as they travel to LA, a land of smokes (ghosts). One character is looking for Joan of Arc and he has been reincarnated into several lives. He thinks he is dying again and he discovers he has a unique talent that he is able to develop into a career. They are all a bunch of misfits but in the end each character has redeeming qualities. This book is something different from what I usually read. ‘Smoke City’ is a unique story and well worth the read. I look forward to reading more from Keith Rosson in the future.
    • 4/5
      At first I didn't think I would like this. It started slow and the characters were impossible to like - a perpetually reincarnated executioner seeking absolution for killing Joan of Arc, a famous artist who destroys his career and becomes a disreputable alcoholic and a misfit young man clueless and bumbling toward a career in film-making with no skills or experience. However, when these primary characters undertake one of the more bizarre road trips in literature (each motivated by a different objective) the novel picks up speed and the characters become somewhat easier to relate to. The appearance of ghosts is never quite explained, but adds some interesting variety and relief from the problems of the individual characters. In the end, I was glad I read it.
    • 4/5
      Excellent written but very weird story about the reincarnated killer of Joan of Arc, an alcohol-soaked former painter and a young 'ghost buster' on their trip to Los Angeles where the 'Smokes' are puzzling the city with their appearances.It's a wild trip to come to terms with their respective past.To build a future, together.Mystical, allegorical, thrilling.
    • 4/5
      This is the story of Marvin, a man who has been reincarnated since the time of Joan of Arc, and Mike, an alcoholic has-been painter. Mike picks up a hitch hiker, Marvin, on his way to LA. Marvin wants to meet a person who was on a talk show who said she was Joan of Arc reincarnated and Mike wants to attend his ex-wife’s funeral. The book started out very slowly for me and it was difficult to get into. A little more than half way through though and I started to really enjoy the characters and the story. A good read.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely a great read!Author Keith Rosson created three richly diverse characters in the form of Mike, Marvin and Casper whose only common denominator seemingly is being male. Their individual storylines even appear to belong to different genres so much so that you can't help but wonder how in the world is Rosson going to tie them together into one cohesive plot. The answer is, masterfully! In Smoke City Rosson has set the perfect pace to keep the reader engaged in a unique and intriguing plot with characters that are easy to feel invested in their personal outcomes. I highly recommend Smoke City to readers of any type of fiction who ultimately enjoy,a great book versus staying in a particular genre.
    • 1/5
      Another one that got me off on the wrong track; I managed to start it a couple of times but never got past 10%. It simply was uninteresting.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book, such a different premise and was really engaging the whole way through. I was worried about the sci-fi element but it totally worked and the characters made believable choices and i could invest in each storyline. Nice to get a decent Early Reviewers book!
    • 3/5
      This book is of course about ghosts, a painter, somenone out of the middle ages and a youngster with a tebbrible t-shirt. That's the surface.But essentially the book is about how to handle terrible losses, terrible guilt, how to come to terms with live again, about trhee very different men coping with each other and with life.I like the book, I liked the running gag about the t-shirt and I liked the end.
    • 5/5
      In the near future, ghosts referred to as “smokes” have started appearing in southern California and northern Mexico, with Los Angeles as smoke central. These ghosts don’t go ‘boo’; they do not interact with people at all. They just show up, do their thing, and disappear. Mike Vale lives in Portland, OR. Once the most highly praised young artist in the US, for years he’s been a self-destructive drunk who hasn’t painted a thing. Upon getting word that his ex-wife has suddenly died, he feels he must get down to LA for her funeral. He begins a guilt driven road trip. Marvin Deitz owns a vintage record store, and is being evicted by the mob connected landlord. He is on a short leash with his therapist, because he’s been open about his belief that he is the reincarnation of the executioner who lit the fire that killed Joan of Arc. He also figures he’s about to die, since not once in his many, many lifetimes has he lived past 57- and his birthday is in a few days (he remembers every one of his lives). When he sees a woman on a TV talk show who claims to be the reincarnation of Joan of Arc, he feels he must talk with her and maybe, at long last, be forgiven for what he did. He needs a ride to LA. Casper is a nerd who dreams of being a ghost hunter. He figures that the smokes are a great opportunity to become one and have his own reality show- but he has no car. So this odd trio ends up on the freeway heading south to LA. Everything that can go wrong, does. While all three are on quests, it’s pretty much a character driven book. It’s sort of like a grail quest mashed up with “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”. I really enjoyed this book. For all the grim story lines dealing with guilt and alcoholism, it was amusing. I ended up liking all the characters (even Mike), and was happy with how the story turned out. This is only the second book by this author, and I see he’s grown since the first one (which was also very good). Four and a half stars.
    • 5/5
      The Mercy of the Tide was one of my favorite books that I read last year, and so I was super, super thrilled to win an ARC of this book from LibraryThing. (Hooray, thanks, LibraryThing and Meerkat Press!) I really enjoyed this one—Keith Rosson has this knack for weaving the weird and fantastical (in this case, some lost souls and a reincarnated 15th century executioner) into very human stories, and also for creating these supremely broken characters that still somehow endear themselves to the reader. It's a strange, beautifully written story, and I recommend it.
    • 4/5
      The last couple of books I received from LibraryThing for review have taken me to the American Northwest. The luck of the draw ... a growing presence of writers from that region ... or something else? I don’t know ... and I don’t mind, either. I like that part of the country, and I think it provides a good setting for tales of all kinds.The latest addition to my e-bookshelf is “Smoke City,” a novel by Portland, Oregon author Keith Rosen. I’ve visited Portland more than once ... big Timbers/Thorns fan here. I’ve enjoyed the soccer, the food and the drink ... and meeting all kinds of interesting people ... though those people might pale in comparison to Michael Vale and Marvin Dietz, two characters who are one-of-a-kind in more ways than you can imagine.The paths each followed to their meeting in Portland couldn’t have been any more different, though both have known great pain and torment, and a desperate wish to escape. As we progress through Rosen’s novel we learn more and more of the backstories of Vale and Dietz as their paths join and they embark upon a journey from Portland ... and “what a long, strange trip” that might be for them and for all who cross their paths ... people and ‘Smokes.’The Smokes .... of all the characters we encounter in the course of Rosen’s novel, they are the most ephemeral, the most confounding. And yet, their importance grows page by page, adding a supernatural slant to what is already an out-of-the-ordinary ‘road trip’ story.You, the reader will also be taking a long, strange trip of your own. Rosen’s narrative style takes a lot of jumps back and forth, through time and space, as we learn more and more about Vale and Dietz, and how they become who and what they are today, in the here and now.I must warn you, though, you may - or may NOT - like who you meet. Their circumstances and the means by which they arrived in those circumstances - not just these two, but the supporting cast of characters who join them on at least one stage of that journey - are sure to elicit a variety of responses, and varying levels of sympathy from readers.Whatever feeling you have for the characters, whatever level of sympathy - or empathy? - you may have them, I urge you to stay with them through a few more pages, a few more miles down the road until you reach the journey’s end.__________NOTE: I received a free e-copy of this work through LibraryThing, in exchange for a review.
    • 4/5
      Ridiculously original, I can't even think of a book to compare this too. Joan of Arc's executioner has been reincarnated time and again and finds himself living a droll existence as a record store owner in Portland, Oregon. Marvin has never lived past 57 so he knows his time is near. He's all but resigned to the fact when he sees a woman on a daytime talk show claim to be Joan of Arc reincarnated. Is this it? Is this Marvin's chance to break the cycle of reincarnation and make amends for killing Saint Joan? He starts to hitchhike down to LA to find Joan of Arc and in the process joins Mike Vale, a former art icon and current drunk. Their road trip turns out to be more than adventurous. Their trip is dotted with smokes, ghostly apparitions that are starting to appear on the east coast. Know one knows what smokes want, but they they don't hang around long. Hundreds appear and disappear and a sense of doom is falling over California. Ghosts, booze, sarcasm, and a 14th century reincarnated executioner make this novel and unforgettable and fun read.
    • 5/5
      A really good artsy book. Really enjoyable and highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      Marvin Deitz is struggling: his landlord is trying to evict him from his record shop; his therapist is concerned about his sanity and his heart is being broken by the suffering he sees on the children’s oncology ward where he volunteers for four hours a week. If all of that wasn’t enough he knows that he won’t live beyond his imminent fifty seventh birthday. He knows this for a certainty because he is the reincarnation of the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc’s pyre in 1431 and, for over six hundred years, he has lived countless other lives, many of which were very short but none has ever lasted beyond fifty seven, the age he was when he lit the fire. Then a chance viewing of a woman on a Los Angeles chat show, claiming to be a reincarnation of Joan, fills him with hope that he will finally have an opportunity to make reparation, to rid himself of the guilt he has lived with for more than six hundred years. He just has to go and track her down so he immediately sets off to hitch a lift to Los Angeles. Within minutes of sticking his thumb up he is picked up by Mike Vale, a previously successful but now alcoholic, non-productive artist who is fighting his own demons and is on his way to the city for his ex-wife’s funeral. Along the way they give a lift to Casper, a young man who is also desperate to get to the city because he wants to make a show about the “smokes”, ghostly apparitions which have been appearing throughout Southern California and New Mexico. Who are they? Why have they suddenly started to appear? What are they looking for? Keith Rosson has created three flawed but memorable characters in this compelling novel – even his more minor characters felt fully-formed and convincing. The story switches from the present day to past events, from first to third person; it combines history with magical realism and the paranormal; it is full humour often deliciously dark, reflections on the meaning of life, of the search for forgiveness and redemption, of political satire – and much, much more. There are so many genre-defying elements to the story that when I first started reading I wondered how it could possibly be translated into a convincing whole but, in a quite brilliantly inventive way, the author has managed to do just that. From the powerful opening introduction to the final sentence I felt totally engaged, with both the storyline and with the characters, so much so that I felt a real sense of loss when I had to leave them behind as I turned the final page. The author’s writing is so evocative that, not only did I feel a strong sense that I was accompanying these characters on their journey, but I also felt that I could see the countryside they were travelling through and felt caught up in their experiences of the ethereal and compelling “smokes”. There was never a moment when I didn’t believe in the developing story and I think this is a reflection of the author’s skill in creating such multi-layered characters who seem to leap off the page to make themselves known. I loved the way in which he explored their developing friendship as they travelled towards their respective “destinations”, and how he made even their most deviant behaviour understandable and worthy of empathy. I enjoyed the way in which he creatively wove historical events into the story, his use of allegory and I appreciated the hint of the Jungian concept of a collective unconscious, of patterns repeating themselves down the generations and an ongoing search for resolution. The passages where he described methods of torture in 14th century Europe made for very disturbing reading, not only because they captured the degrading nature of man’s inhumanity to man in such a powerfully visceral way, but because they served as a reminder that men are still capable of similar outrages. Keith Rosson tackles so many themes in this book that it feels impossible to do justice to all of them but some of the major ones focus on the nature of guilt, shame, despair, forgiveness, absolution, redemption, addiction, the search for salvation, our inter-dependence as human beings and a need to make the most of the life we lead. At times, there is an almost Kafkaesque nature to the writing which makes the story-telling not only convincing in our increasingly complex world but, for this reader, even more compelling. There is so much in the story that is thought-provoking, full of ironical observations and which challenges corruption and complacency. Yet, ultimately, this felt like a story about hope, about love and about the essential decency of people. This was a hugely satisfying, cohesive and enjoyable personal read and it would make an ideal choice for reading groups, not only because of the varied themes, but also because the literary quality of Keith Rosson’s writing is truly remarkable and, at times, quite breath-takingly beautiful. This is his second published novel (although he has written lots of short stories) and I find myself hoping that his third won’t be too long in coming! A final point, but one which added to my enjoyment because it somehow set the scene for the “quirky” nature of this story, I must mention the author’s own design for the book jacket – it feels perfect! I cannot praise this book highly enough but I hope that what I have written will convince you to buy yourself a copy and discover for yourself what a remarkable writer Keith Rosson is and what a unique, highly imaginative voice he has as a story-teller.I received my copy of this book from Library Thing, in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      Marvin has been alive a long time. He wasn't always called Marvin, but through countless lives he's been trapped in a purgatory of suffering since that day all those years ago in France when he burned a young girl to death. And not just any young girl, Joan of Arc herself. Damned to die by violence countless times without a hint of hope or meaning, Marvin is nearing the end of this cycle. His lives never go beyond his 57th birthday, and that's in a matter of days. As he begins to wrap matters up, a strange sign sends him on a last minute trip to Los Angeles. On the road he gets picked up by an alcoholic artist hauling ass to make his ex-wife's funeral. The two have both heard of the sudden ghostly infestation in Los Angeles but neither give it much thought. They both have business to take care of and a relatively limited timetable. An intriguing and unique story, artfully told about the weight of guilt, and the beauty of forgiveness.
    • 5/5
      Smoke City by Keith Rosson Marvin has some issues. His possibly mob-connected landlord is evicting him from his record shop, he’s just seen a woman on TV claiming to be Joan of Arc, and he is the reincarnation of her executioner. Oh yeah, and he only has a few days to live before his cursed life starts over.Mike is a washed up artist. He hasn't painted anything in years, is a raging alcoholic, just got fired, and just found out his ex-wife died.Also, ghosts are appearing in the streets and no one knows why.I think we’ve at least set the stage. At first as I started this novel by Keith Rosson (who am now adding all his other books to my “to-read” shelf), I wasn’t sure how all the threads were going to come together. I can promise you, they all come together fantastically. In hero’s journey of our two anti-heroes, we explore the nuances of being a painter as well as a medieval executioner. I thoroughly enjoyed this read. Characters, even passing supporting ones, were realistic and meaningful. I look forward to it’s release in January 2018.I received a free advance copy of this book via LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.

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    Smoke City - Keith Rosson

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