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The virgin of the flames

by Chris Abani

290 pages · 2008

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For Black, a mural artist in east L.A., the city's tumbledown landscape is his canvas. Residing in a ramshackle apartment, he lives for his art and obsesses over Sweet Girl, the transvestite stripper who serves as his muse.

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