LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS“One of the best books of fiction to have come out in recent memory.” —ZYZZYVAWelcome to Shaky Town, a place invisible on maps and found only in the secret heart of its citizens. Or, as acutely observed by one character . . .“L.A. is where you reside. Shaky Town is where you live.”In this masterwork of panoramic style, Lou Mathews weaves together the tragedies and glories of one eastside neighborhood in the 1980s. From a teenage girl caught in the middle of a gang war, to an Irish priest who has lost his faith and hit bottom, the characters in Shaky Town live on a dangerous fault line but remain unshakable in their connections to one another.A former mechanic and street racer, Mathews captures the grit and gold of working-class Los Angeles and lays down his marker as one of the city’s great chroniclers.