A short road trip down to Monterrey when we were last in the Bay Area would have been enhanced by rereading this famous short novel prior to going. This gentle and humorous series of interconnected vignettes involving the colorful, often struggling, characters that lived on Monterey’s Cannery Row during the Depression has kept its appeal over the intervening decades. Sentimental – yes – full of prostitutes with hearts of gold and indigents living an almost blissful life despite privation, but still affecting. 196 pp.
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