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A brilliant, exhilarating debut book that retells The Odyssey during the 1965 Watts Riots - like nothing at all you've ever heard before It's August 1965, and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically striving to come back home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old transport storage containers) where he lives along with his sweetheart, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and even though his position as a chronicler of all things underground garners him free passage through the territories fiercely handled by gangs, his trek is nevertheless diverted. Getting into an exciting, dangerous, and sometimes paranormal trip, Monk crosses pathways with a dizzying selection of representatives from Los Angeles subcultures, including Chinese gangsters, graffiti bombers, witches, the Nation of Islam head Elijah Muhammad, and more. Graffiti Palace is the story of a city transmogrified by the upsurge of its citizens, and Monk is our tour guide, cataloging and protecting the areas that, though surreptitious and unseen, nevertheless created the backbone of 1960s Los Angeles. With an astounding generosity of imagery and thoughts, Graffiti Palace heralds the birth of a major speech in fiction. A. G. Lombardo sees the writings on our wall surfaces, and with Graffiti Palace he has provided an allegorical paean to a city in revolt.
