Last Date in El Zapotal by Mateo Garcia Elizondo Groundswell Speaker 2024 'Acker's most accomplished experimental work'

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Last Date in El Zapotal by Mateo Garcia Elizondo Groundswell Speaker 2024 'Acker's most accomplished experimental work'A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts . This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive, though, he cant stop clinging to the past. His old dog, Kid, who he abandoned. His love, Valerie, who he introduced to drugs. Theres no such thing as a good memory. El Zapotal doesnt want him either.