Love Street Fiction Kevin Andrew Heslop (b

Kevin Andrew Heslop (b

red for ‘the guys who are always maddern’ hell and want to hit people’

This mixture of pleasures gives us the feeling we are reading a text long remembered and well-loved

opposites and offsets—poetry that reflects on and reimagines creativity

Bressani Literary Prize

Love Street Fiction Kevin Andrew Heslop (bYou have never read a book like Susan Perlys first novel Love Street. Open it anywhere, and out comes the voice of Miss Mercy, late night radio DJ in New Orleans with her jive talk and old vinyl platters. Sam Cooke, Percy Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, war, art, peacetime Miss Mercy talks to the lonely. She swings, she bebops, growls, prays, plays blues, soul, jazz, R&B. Miss Mercy is the modern woman of all ages.