I'm afraid I finally simply lost patience with this novel, waiting for a story to kick in. I kept pushing myself, until I reached the halfway point, but just couldn't keep going. The writing is good, though, which accounts for my rating.

This one feels like a situation of “ it’s not you, it’s me”. I tried this one several times, skipped ahead to other stories, but l, ultimately, just didn’t connect with this one.

Unfortunately I didnt end up finishing this book. I couldn't connect with the writing style. This was a lot more nature writing forward then I expected, which isn't a genre I can connect with.

Thanks to Netgalley and FSG for the ebook. Over twenty years ago, Johnny Frias and a small group of friends who loved motorcycles trained in the California Highway Patrol program. Only Johnny became a cop and still rides a bike and gives tickets to speeders who make racial slights to him. The story starts with Johnny and his family and friends and branches out to close to a dozen characters as people deal with low wage jobs, fires that stretch for miles, violence that comes out of nowhere and is kept secret for decades and even dealing with the coronavirus. This is a gripping story told about a group of characters that often people don’t really see that are hanging on even though it seems like current America is stacked against their every move.