REVIEW: Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz

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WARNING: SUICIDE ATTEMPT, DRUGS, ATTEMPTED MURDER AND ASSAULT – HATE CRIME

Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s stories reveal how all borders—real, imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light, addict and straight—entangle those who live on either side. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two blocks south of the Rio Grande. It’s a touchstone for each of Sáenz’s stories. His characters walk by, they might go in for a drink or to score, or they might just stay there for a wh...