Last Date El Zapotal

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Last Date In El Zapotal by Mateo García Elizondo follows a drug addict as he tries to find one last fix, in a town infested with ghosts.

What We Say: “A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die – to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive, though, he can’t stop clinging to the past. His old dog, Kid, who he abandoned. His love, Valerie, who he introduced to drugs. As the drugs run out, the line between what’s real and what’s not blurs to the point of illegibility, with no clear line between the living and dead” – Maria Padget

What They Say: "One of the most promising first novels to be published recently in Spanish" — Elizondo García

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Maria Padget is Service95 Book Club Director