Lopez is the author of Asunder, a collection of short fiction, and of the novels Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, which was named one of the 25 most important books of the decade by HTML Giant. Reviewer Blake Butler said of its inclusion on the list, "Robert Lopez helped close out my decade by closing out my brain with just about every single sentence and paragraph in this thing. It just did not stop. There is not another book I can think of that moves emotionally the way this one does."
Asunder Book Description:
The unforgettable stories in Robert Lopez's Asunder vary in
length and style, but all of them devastate, all constantly cross the
boundaries between poetry and prose. Here we have characters who are
uncertain of themselves, of the people surrounding them. Here people are
in trouble and need help. The compressed lyricism of these stories
seems driven by the silence of what is not said, what lies beneath the
lines and between them. As in his novels Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River,
this elliptical tension of the language gives way to moments of grace
and savage humor, leaving the reader startled, as though the world were a
complete surprise.
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