Deep Ellum by Brandon Hobson is a slender novel of less than 150 pages but one of my early favorites of 2014.

“Snow on the roofs of buildings gleamed in the moonlight. From the rear fender of a parked car along Elm hung little icicles that sparkled. I walked past the store windows, past small mounds of dirty snow along the street. A dog was barking from somewhere above me, in one of the apartments, but besides that there was no traffic and little noise. Deep Ellum in the winter was asleep.”

Read the rest of the review in The Floating Library.