Drowning Tucson

In this “vividly rendered novel-in-stories” (Booklist), Aaron Michael Morales “wrestles with nothing less than the parameters of the human soul” (Luis Alberto Urrea). Set in Tucson’s toughest neighborhoods during the late 1980s, this explosive debut follows the disintegration of the Nuñez family and the people whose paths they cross. From crooked cops to prostitutes plying their trade along the “Miracle Mile,” each person’s destiny is linked by crushing poverty, the brutal codes of the stre...