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02940aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 17BC5C16253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 211017t20222022pau 000 f eng d 010 $a 2021950335 020 $a 1637680295 020 $a 9781637680292 035 $a (OCoLC)1276934363 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BKL $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d XII $d UKMGB $d DLC $d KCK $d OCL $d FHP $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PQ7298.423.O77 $b M98 2022 082 04 $a 863/.7 $2 23 100 1 $a Morrison, Diego Gerard, $e author. 245 10 $a Myth of Pterygium : $b a novel / $c Diego Gerard Morrison. 264 1 $a Pittsburgh, PA : $b Autumn House Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 129 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a The story of a failed poet struggling with vision loss, personal crises, and what it means to be an arms dealer in a quasi-dystopian Mexico City. This debut novel is set in a vaguely dystopian, yet also realistic, Mexico City--endless traffic jams, relentless clouds of pollution, economic hardships, and the ever-present threat of drug cartels. The unnamed narrator of the novel, at times referred to as Arthur--in part because of the growing similarity of his life with Arthur Rimbaud's--struggles with the dissonance of leading an artistic life while providing for his family. A failed, penniless poet with a child on the way, he is forced to take a job in his family's weapons dealing enterprise, which he soon discovers is connected to the corrupt Mexican armed forces and drug cartels, who are responsible for the increasing death toll in the country. All the while, the narrator struggles with a growing condition in his right eye, a pterygium, that is slowly taking over his vision, blurring the events of his life, including his wife's complicated pregnancy, extortions by the drug cartels, and his own relationship to his writing. As the narrator gradually finds his life spiraling out of control, the novel moves quickly to a startling conclusion. 500 $a "Winner of the 2021 Rising Writer Prize in Fiction"--Cover. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Poets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Organized crime $z Mexico City $z Mexico City $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Pterygium $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mexican literature $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Pterygium. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01081930 650 7 $a Poets. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01067778 650 7 $a Organized crime. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01047884 650 7 $a Mexican literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01019210 651 0 $a Mexico City (Mexico) $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Mexico $z Mexico City. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206137 655 2 $a Fictional Work $0 (DNLM)D022922 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014246.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=17BC5C16253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search