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Some Things That Meant the World to Me

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Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr

By Joshua Mohr
208 pages; Two Dollar Radio

Meet Rhonda, a man who spends his haunted, liquor-fueled days Dumpster diving for redemption. With his first line—"I'd like to brag about the night I saved a hooker's life"—debut writer Joshua Mohr sucks you into Some Things That Meant the World to Me. Charles Bukowski fans will dig the grit in this seedy novel, a poetic rendering of postmodern San Francisco culminating in, of all places, Home Depot.

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