Gambler's Quartet | Brad Summerhill
Gambler's Quartet, a new novel by Brad Summerhill, is a short, dark novel that will grab hold of you and take you down to the lives of its characters before letting you go to fend for yourself. Johnny Drake and his sometimes estranged mother, Jenny, are vulnerable, especially with respect to each other. They have put each other through a lot, and worse, they have strategically denied much to each other, too. Perhaps their ultimate failure, though, was being vulnerable in Reno, Nevada, a city that is always there to offer something new and hopeful to the free and weak.