A brilliant novelinstories from awardwinning author Robert Lopez In an uncanny distorted version of New York City a man rides the subway through the chaos of an ordinary commute. He may have a gun in his pocket. He may be looking for someonea woman named Esperanza. Between stops we shuttle back and forth through time and see a man who stands in traffic the same man seizing and shuddering on a sidewalk an institution where the man is housed with other undesirables or troublemakers a neighborh