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The Focus Puller was written during a nine-month road trip in 2022 — a thoroughly enjoyable journey that included an extended stay in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I more or less docked my RV in front of my brother's house for the duration. Rich in culture and steeped in Spanish history, the capital city of New Mexico became the inspiration for the novel. I wrote through what I was told was a typical Santa Fe winter — cold and snowy — huddled inside my RV with a laptop. The first draft was completed in about six weeks. According to my calendar, the first sentence was written on December 14th, 2022.
The Focus Puller falls within the postmodern and experimental classifications of literature — according to me, anyway. It is not for everyone, and it is not rated G.
The narrative jumps between present and past and back again. It has many characters: eccentric, banal, ordinary, foreign, professional, and otherwise — including, yes, space travelers. There's risqué material too. Quite a bit of it.
The settings are present-day Santa Fe and Laredo, Texas in the 1970s. The protagonist is Rio Zapata — impulsive, eccentric, burdened by a nagging past. He begins and ends the book, appearing throughout as a loose narrative thread in a story that deliberately resists holding still. The novel takes place over a single day. Many characters appear only once, some briefly, some at length — among them the unforgettable cast of Chapter 32: Tennessee, Hildy, and Sandy.
Thank you for checking out The Focus Puller.
Marcos E. González
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