Ghosts of West Baltimore
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"Save the Westside, save the world"
Our hero, Worm, has just been released from Sinai Hospital in West Baltimore after losing an eye and suffering a soon-to-be fatal blast of radiation. A rabbi believing himself to be the messiah plans to unleash an unspeakable evil on the same Park Heights neighborhood in which our hero has been placed by the state. Meanwhile, a predatory probation officer with a proclivity for research chemicals and ultra-violence, stalks his human caseload, terrorizing his "boas" as sickness rots his brain.
With a body full of ionized cells, expensive medicine that Medicaid won't cover, and a time-sensitive placement at a halfway house for critically injured felons, can Worm save the city, again, without violating the terms of his probation?"
"Visceral and grounded, but with a kind of ineffable strangeness wound into it. Simmons is carving out a space that feels specifically his own." - Brian Evenson
Ghosts of West Baltimore is the sequel to Ghosts of East Baltimore (Broken River Books - 2022)
David Simmons
David Simmons, EdD, is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at The University of Texas at Tyler. He served as a teacher, principal, and superintendent in several high-performing Texas districts before joining UT Tyler to guide the next generation of educational leaders. He brings to this book the perspective of one who has governed schools through both calm and crisis, and who believes that public education remains one of the finest expressions of American democracy.
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