June 30, 2009 - NEW! Every few weeks, SoCalBookScene will feature a cool book with a regional connection. The first entry, as selected by the SCIBA Board of Directors: God of War, by Marisa Silver.
The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the middle of the Southern California desert. It is a desolate, forgotten place, whose inhabitants thrive amidst seemingly impossible circumstances. (Read more)
