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Damascus ReviewThis is Mohr's third, and hands down best book. Heart-wrenching and hilarious, the book follows typical Mohr-esque degenerates through the dingy underbelly of the San Francisco Mission bar scene. Despite the desperate characters and squalid setting, there is a charm and sparkle to the novel that lets "Damascus" leave you with a smile, despite its dark premise and undertones. There is an underlying humor and absurdity, which Mohr uses expertly to illuminate the subtext surrounding the national and political context of the book. The novel is inherently sad, yet beautiful in the way its people, places, sounds, smells, triumphs and despairs are weaved together through the crafty and sharp prose. It's a punch in the face and the gut and leaves you knowing exactly what Mohr was trying to say. I laughed. I cried. I recommend this book to anyone who likes anything that makes you feel something.Damascus Overview
"[Mohr] has a generous understanding of his characters, whom he describes with an intelligence and sensitivity that pulls you in."—The New York Times Book Review (editors' choice) on Termite Parade
It's 2003 and the country is divided evenly for and against the Iraq War. Damascus, a dive bar in San Francisco's Mission District, becomes the unlikely setting for a showdown between the opposing sides.
Tensions come to a boil when Owen, the bar's proprietor who has recently taken to wearing a Santa suit full-time, agrees to host the joint's first (and only) art show by Sylvia Suture, an ambitious young artist who longs to take her act to the dramatic precipice of the high-wire by nailing live fish to the walls as a political statement.
An incredibly creative and fully rendered cast of characters orbit the bar. There's No Eyebrows, a cancer patient who has come to the Mission to die anonymously; Shambles, the patron saint of the hand job; Revv, a lead singer who acts too much like a lead singer; and Owen, donning his Santa costume to mask the most unfortunate birthmark imaginable.
Damascus is the place where confusion and frustration run out of room to hide. By gracefully tackling such complicated topics as cancer, Iraq, and issues of self-esteem, Joshua Mohr has painted his most accomplished novel yet.
Joshua Mohr is the San Francisco Chronicle best-selling author of Some Things That Meant the World to Me and Termite Parade, a New York Times Book Review editors' choice selection.

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