Capp Road

Capp Road is a brutal unflinching portrait of small town America. Here Matt Borczon trains his laser-focus upon the claustrophobic suffocating sinking feeling of not being able to escape the nowhere fate that threatens at every turn to capture us like bugs under glass. What makes this book work really work at a fundamental level is Borczons minimalistic storytelling approach. The broken characters that wander Capp Road are neither good nor bad - they simply are. They are doing the best they can with the fucked-up situation they were born into. Their hopes dreams fears stories and journeys through madness and redemption through Borczons trademark smashed-up sentence narrative becomes ours. Capp Road is not a book to be read - it is meant to be ingested injected scraped from under our fingernails and shaken off like dust. This book is a triumph. -- Wolfgang Carstens Epic Rites Press