Son of Nothingness: A Novel of Appearances

Los Angeles, 1949. Attorney Andrew Martin, aka Andrés Martinez, is doing what he does best: surviving. His career is stable, he has his pick of women, and his beloved parrot, Emerson, keeps him company. True, he's still lamenting his rejection from the military, still tormented by memories of his father, and then there's his leg, which continually feels like an imposter. But he's learned to live with all of that, too.

Until the arrival of Penny, that is, a member of the Salvation Army, a str...