β Scribed by Mattox Roesch
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Troubled Cesar leaves his gangbanging life behind
in Los Angeles to help his mother reconnect with
her estranged family in rural Alaska, where she
hopes they both can carve out a fresh start. When
Cesar arrives, he meets his college dropout cousin,
Go-Boy, who believes he's part of a good world
conspiracy and who bets Cesar he will stay in
Alaska for a year.
Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same is the
account of two unlikely cousins and their parallel
journeys through guilt and loneliness into the
bonds of friendship. Set in a location like no other,
the setting inevitably becomes its own character,
pushing and pulling against Cesar and Go-boy as
they struggle with the quirky challenges of life in
Unalakleet, Alaska. With his absent father and an
older brother in prison for a gang murder, Cesar
is badly in need of a male role-model and the
acceptance of friends and family.
In his insightful and thoroughly engaging debut,
Mattox Roesch...
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