Description
A look at the world of drifters. The hero is Mickey Acuña, a Chicano who books into the El Paso YMCA. No one knows where he is from, or why he came. He spends his time talking to the other residents, people in similar situations, playing pool, ping pong, occasionally enquiring at the desk if there's mail for him, giving the clerk to understand he is awaiting a cheque. By the author of The Magic of Blood.