"The solidarity engendered by outside disapproval, a note struck constantly."
2017
California Notes
"At the center of this story there is a terrible secret, a kernel of cyanide, and the secret is that the story doesn’t matter; doesn’t make any difference, doesn’t figure."
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“That smell – cigarette – it always made me think of him. He smoked his cigarette. I drove. I didn’t mind the silence and the desert and the cloudless sky. What did words matter to a desert?”
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, p. 281
By Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Published 2012 by Simon & Schuster
By Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Published 2012 by Simon & Schuster