β Scribed by Geoffrey Becker
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In this funny, touching collection about music, identity, liars, and love, Geoffrey Becker brings us into the lives of people who have come to a turning point and lets us watch as they take, however clumsily, their next steps.
In the title story, an aging black singer who performs only Elvis songs despite his classic bluesman looks has his regular spot at the local blues jam threatened by a newly arrived Asian American with the unlikely name Robert Johnson. In βMan Under," two friends struggling to be rock musicians in Reagan-era Brooklyn find that their front door has been removed by their landlord. An aspiring writer discovers the afterlife consists of being the stand-in for a famous author on an endless book tour in βAnother Coyote Story." Lonely and adrift in Florence, Italy, a young man poses as a tour guide with an art history degree in βKnow Your Saints." And in βThis Is Not a Bar," a simple night on the town for a middle-aged guitar student and...
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