Ask the Dust
John Fante • 1939
Devastation Rating
abuse love literary fiction loss
Our Take
Arturo Bandini loves and degrades Camilla Lopez in equal measure, and Fante writes both impulses with such raw honesty that the reader is implicated in every cruelty. The relationship is toxic from the first page, and the dust of the title is what remains when two damaged people grind each other down.
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