The Little Book of Tom. Cops & Robbers historic fiction Blackburn travels a vast panorama

Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief

Can she remember how to love

In Vice Patrol

and to keep alive ties to family

it is Orvil's vibrant energy that allows this book to bubble

The Little Book of Tom. Cops & Robbers historic fiction Blackburn travels a vast panoramaTom's taste for police officers and felons and for sexual tension between the two developed late in his career. "I've never been to prison," he told a class at the California Institute of the Arts in 1985, "but I hear it's a closed world where there are different roles and people behave different from when they walk free. It fascinates me. It is another subject I come back to again and again." By which he meant fantasized about again and again, since