Vince Passaro recommends
Neglect (2021)
Kim Wozencraft
"Kim Wozencraft has been covering the morning-after nightmare portion of the American Dream since her fearless bestseller, Rush. In Neglect, we see her talent sharpened, matured, even more powerful and no less intrepid: this is a story of post-modern, ex-urban American desperation and dysfunction, addiction and violence, evils passed from the top of the society down to the ever-expanding bottom like so much poisoned candy to children. This world, people scrambling to survive the onslaught of no hope and mindless bureaucracy, is where other writers in more comfortable places don't wish to look: Wozencraft looks, and tells the story of her heroine, Erin Hill, with heart, with flawless clean prose, and with an unfailing eye for the small details of all our daily struggles to carry on. Erin's fall will make you mad and it will move you; her hard-edged redemption will remind you that even in the toughest times we never stop longing for virtue and we never stop looking for, and living for, love. This is an important book."
