Knockout: Stories

"The characters in this sometimes dark, sometimes hilarious short story collection include a young man who lets himself be talked into stealing a tiger and selling it for meth, and a guy who moves into a duplex and discovers, too late, that his new roommate is a sadistic kidnapper. John Jodzio writes about junkies, criminals, dealers and liars, but he treats them all with compassion and humanity. He writes with emotional honesty about the people on the very edge of society, and the result is, well, a knockout."