The Nirvana Blues

This final volume in John Nichols''s acclaimed New Mexico trilogy (“Gentle funny transcendent.” ―New York Times Book Review).Like its predecessors The Nirvana Blues is a lusty visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy reality and fantasy tenderness and bite to illuminate some very troubling truths about America―truths no less pointed and accurate today than they were decades ago. The seventies are over. All across America the overgrown kids of the middle class are getting their acts together―and getting older. The once-tight Chicano community of Chamisaville is long gone and the Anglo power brokers control almost everything. Joe Miniver―faithful husband loving father and all-around good guy―is about to sink roots. To buy the land he wants he dreams up a coke scam that will net him the necessary bread. Joe is also about to embark on a series of erotic adventures with three headstrong women bringing him face-to-face with the terrors (and absurdity) of the modern man-woman scene.The Nirvana Blues is part of John Nichols''s New Mexico trilogy which includes The Milagro Beanfield War and The Magic Journey