![]() Very good.īeauregard grew up driving fast up and down and spiraling around the hills of rural Virginia. Once upon a time Beauregard was a criminal. There was a difficult road to this place in his life. He wants to provide for his family, to run an honest car repair business. He wants his family to have a better life than he had. The bills are piling up, and the life Beauregard has tried hard to build over the years is falling apart.īeauregard does not want to step backwards. ![]() ![]() His daughter, Ariel (influenced by the Disney cartoon), is thinking about going to some kind of college after she graduates. Nevertheless, when he is able, Beauregard helps out with the daughter from that union. He married Kia and had three children, one of whom was with a woman he only knew briefly. Despite taking a lot of left turns when he should have turned right, Beauregard managed to get himself right. When his father left the family, his mother fell apart. ![]() Cosby has written a stark, violent, dark, noir book about a family man in rural Virginia who makes a choice and how that choice leads him deeper into a place where he didn’t want to go.īeauregard grew up Black and poor. I was so glad it was fiction, although I’d be naive if I didn’t think that if enough people’s stories were cobbled together, they might equal “Blacktop Wasteland.” ![]() Yee-ow! “Blacktop Wasteland” is an intense, intense book. ![]()
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