“There is a book in here I read every day. I start at the beginning and read on through till the end. Each time it is like I am reading it anew as I can never remember what the story is about. It’s almost like every day the book tells me a different story.”
The magic in Robert Lopez’s body of work consists of the brief, little burst of lightning in a sentence, a phrase, a four-paragraph micro-story. While A Better Class of People (Dzanc, 2022) is Lopez’s fourth short novel, it is the first that takes his aptitude for tiny explosive momentums and turns them into a singular narrative. A Better Class Of People outshines his previous novels by achieving the ideals of his work in structure, execution, and pure dedication to the craft.
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Garrett Zecker 