Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same

By Mattox Roesch

Unbridled Books, LLC
Publication date: January 2009

ISBN: 9781936071845

Digital Book format: PDF (Adobe DRM)

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Troubled Cesar leaves his gangbanging life behind in Los Angeles to help his mother reconnect with her estranged family in rural Alaska, where she hopes they both can carve out a fresh start. When Cesar arrives, he meets his college dropout cousin, Go-Boy, who believes he's part of a good world conspiracy and who bets Cesar he will stay in Alaska for a year. Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same is the account of two unlikely cousins and their parallel journeys through guilt and loneliness into the bonds of friendship. Set in a location like no other, the setting inevitably becomes its own character, pushing and pulling against Cesar and Go-boy as they struggle with the quirky challenges of life in Unalakleet, Alaska. With his absent father and an older brother in prison for a gang murder, Cesar is badly in need of a male role-model and the acceptance of friends and family. In his insightful and thoroughly engaging debut, Mattox Roesch has created a fresh, appealing voice along with a wonderful cast of characters. Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same tells the surprising story of a young man finding his way and his place in a world that can seem both too large and too small. What Cesar finally discovers is the power of friendship and the potential positive strength that springs from a tight-knit community. He learns the ways in which becoming a part of that community, though at times scary and restrictive, can also be fulfilling and even exhilarating.