Michael Nava: Likeness

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“The fighting had ended and his old routines had begun to be re-established ‑ even El Morito had reappeared, skinny and flea-ridden - but nothing was as it had been. He was like someone who had stepped into a long, dark, and frightening tunnel and, coming into the light, could not blink away the darkness that continued to cloud the periphery of his vision. The world was a more arbitrary and crueler place, and even though his family surrounded him, he knew now that he was essentially alone in it.”

Source: The Children of Eve' series of novels (historical fiction), The City of Palaces (2014), p.323

“He felt like Hercules at the Augean stables commissioned to clean out the accumulated filth of centuries.”

Source: The Children of Eve' series of novels (historical fiction), The City of Palaces (2014), p.86

“The vendors shrilled their wares as if the lard, coal, tortillas, or candies they were selling were the last of their kind. Their cries, as they blended together, were like bird calls, as if the city were a gigantic aviary.”

Source: The Children of Eve' series of novels (historical fiction), The City of Palaces (2014), p.82

“It really was a brutal place, Los Angeles, less a city than a collection of hostile villages united only in their mutual suspicion of each other and a susceptibility to disasters, natural and otherwise. Fires, floods, riots and earthquakes; it was looking more and more like Armageddon-by-the-Pacific.”

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Death of Friends (1996), p.81

“As far as I was concerned, the Catholic Church was just another totalitarian political entity, like the Communist Party or IBM, but I had to admit, it put on a good show. I watched the theatrics unfold.”

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Hidden Law (1992), p.66

“The rich are different, I thought: condemned to live their lives in public, they go through their paces at the edge of hysteria like show dogs from which every trait has been bred but anxiety.”

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Little Death (1986), p.118