Some Things That Meant the World to Me

<p><i>#8 of 10 Terrific Reads of 2009.</i> &quot;Charles Bukowski will dig the grit in this seedy novel, a poetic rendering of postmodern San Francisco.&quot; -O, The Oprah Magazine</p><p><i>A Best Book of the Year</i> -The Nervous Breakdown</p><p>&quot;Where Michel Gondry would go if he went down a few too many miles of bad desert road.&quot; -The Collagist</p><p>&quot;Mohr's prose roams with chimerical liquidity. The magic of this book is a disturbing, hallucinogenic magic.&quot; -Boston's Weekly Dig</p><p>Following a 30-year-old man named Rhonda suffering from depersonalization, <i>Some Things That Meant the World to Me</i> is a gritty and beautiful work that is creative and hypnotic, and should stand as an introduction of an original new voice to American literature.</p><p>When Rhonda was a child - abandoned and ignored by his mother; abused and misguided by his mother's boyfriend - he imagined the rooms of his home drifting apart from one another like separating continents. Years later, after an embarassing episode as an adult, Rhonda's inner-child appears, leading him to a trapdoor in the bottom of a dumpster behind a taqueria that will force him to finally confront his troubled past.</p><p>In the spirit of <i>Cruddy</i> and <i>Hairstyles of the Damned</i>, Joshua Mohr has created a remarkable and unforgettable character in this charmingly poetic and maturely crafted first novel.</p><p><b>Joshua Mohr</b> has been published in <i>Other Voices</i>, <i>The Cimarron Review</i>, <i>Pleiades</i>, and <i>Gulf Coast</i>, among others. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at a halfway house.</p><br>