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Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink : Offbeat Travels Through America's Southwest
Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink Offbeat Travels Through America's Southwest Author:Tom Miller This invigoratingly writtenand evocatively titlednarrative invites readers on an eye-opening tour of the American Southwest and across the border into Mexico. Note: Readers looking for the Southwest that begins and ends with kerchief-wearing coyotes, Georgia OKeeffe skulls, and adobe-inflected decor would do well to look elsewh... more »ere. This extraordinary book offers something else entirely, leading us deep inside the uniqueness of the region and reflecting on the mounting tension between its eroding physical splendor and the diverse inhabitants who crisscross its bleached deserts, cracked pavementand eighteen-hole golf courses. Exploring such central themes as tierra, art, violence, and food, religion, and politics, celebrated author Tom Millers prose is at once optimistic, vigilant, amiable, and penetrating. From Bisbee, Arizona, Americas only town with a maximum wage, to Northern Mexicos Pinacate volcanic fields, which resemble how the Earth must have looked before man evolved and how it will look again when no one remains; from an investigation of the curious chimichanga and the origins of La Bamba to a poignant tour of the Southwests painful continuing legacy of illegal immigration, Jack Rubys Kitchen Sink takes you on an engaging and compelling adventure into a part of the world we thought we knew.« less