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10 Terrific Reads of 2009
The books that gave us comfort, joy, and lots to talk about.

#8: Some Things That Meant the World to Me, by Joshua Mohr.

"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."

posted by Joshua Mohr on December, 01 ]]> /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/193634-excerpt-from-termite-parade Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:38:13 -0800 /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/193634-excerpt-from-termite-parade
http://www.sfbayguardian.com/entry.php?entry_id=9244&catid=85&volume_id=452&issue_id=453&volume_num=44&issue_num=01

posted by Joshua Mohr on November, 25 ]]> /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/176285-the-collagist-reviews-the-book Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:41:38 -0800 /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/176285-the-collagist-reviews-the-book
http://www.thecollagist.com/archive/September2009/Dixon/index.html

posted by Joshua Mohr on November, 22 ]]> /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/131165-boston-s-weekly-dig-reviews-some-things Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:15:12 -0800 /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/131165-boston-s-weekly-dig-reviews-some-things
Check out the review in its entirety.

http://www.weeklydig.com/%5Bcatpath%5D/200907/some-things-meant-world-me

posted by Joshua Mohr on December, 01 ]]> /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/87508-rumpus-reviews-some-things-that-meant-the-world-to-me Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:48:30 -0700 /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/87508-rumpus-reviews-some-things-that-meant-the-world-to-me
Here's the whole review:

http://therumpus.net/2009/06/down-in-the-dumpster/

posted by Joshua Mohr on October, 23 ]]> /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/58855-sf-chronicle-article-about-the-novel Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:24:35 -0800 /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/58855-sf-chronicle-article-about-the-novel
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/05/DDF81809J8.DTL&type=books

posted by Joshua Mohr on November, 15 ]]> /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/52925-mohr-interviewed-in-sf-examiner Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:29:23 -0800 /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/52925-mohr-interviewed-in-sf-examiner
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/46167792.html

posted by Joshua Mohr on November, 11 ]]> /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/52908-starred-publishers-weekly-review-for-some-things-that-meant-the-world Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:06:55 -0800 /author/show/2063615.Joshua_Mohr/blog/52908-starred-publishers-weekly-review-for-some-things-that-meant-the-world
Mohr's first novel is biting and heartbreaking, a piercing look at the indelible scars a violent past has left on a young man named Rhonda. In the mental hospital where Rhonda spent his teenage years, a doctor he refers to as Angel-Hair diagnoses him with depersonalization, a disorder he uses to reconfigure the traumatic events of his life and render them in vividly surreal terms. To withstand the frequent absences of his alcoholic mother and her boyfriend's abuse, Rhonda imagines his childhood home in Arizona as a living thing, where rooms stretch and move, and desert wildlife wanders the halls. The disturbing narrative engine—Rhonda's renaming and reimagining of the world around him to fit into his damaged logic—keeps the story creepily moving as it touches on homebrew prison wine and Rhonda's friendship with his childhood self, little-Rhonda. Mohr uses punchy, tightly wound prose to pull readers into a nightmarish landscape, but he never loses the heart of his story; it's as touching as it is shocking, even if the ending's a smidge sappy. (June)

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