Lot is a collection of stories centering on the lives of a dispossessed and sidelined community in Houston, Texas. In particular it focuses on the story of a birracial black Latino man from a broken home and his path of self-discovery. Lot had a very unique rhythm that was hard to settle into at first given all the colloquialisms, vernacular and idiomatic Spanish but I was able to find my footing as the story progressed and empathise a lot more with its characters and their tragic tales of survival, desperation and loss. From a Venezuelan teen with no option than to take up a life in drug dealing to a baseball pro carrying the hopes of the humble neighbourhood that made him, Lot gave me much to think about, like a modern-day piece of art that leaves much to interpretation.

tw: contains offensive language