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Available Aug 25th 2020

Spanning the globe over, Hector Tobar's "The Last Great Road Bum" is a monumental adventure through time, space and even the fourth wall. Writing a novel in a novel, Tobar offer's us the perspective of an unnamed Salvadoran author writing about the explorer extraordinaire Joe Sanderson, a "native son" of Urbana, Illinois. It is clever, similar to Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in the way Tobar pulls in and engages his audience in meta conversations. I enjoyed both the author's ponderings and Sanderson's offbeat character. Similar to Isabel Allende's novels spans over time and space, we see Sanderson circle the globe multiple times in his ever-continuing search for identity and community. Entertaining yet sobering, Tobar's "The Last Great Road Bum" has a little something to offer everyone.