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Tijuana Straits, By Kem Nunn

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People do not always get to have the fairytale life they once dreamed of. Life comes with many struggles, but people can overcome them if they really want to. They choose to follow a certain path in their life, which at times it can be good or bad. In the book, “Tijuana Straits”, by Kem Nunn, the author explains the different life experiences of certain characters in the book and how their life ended up. Unlike a fairytale, he gives the different perspective and point of views of the characters. Nunn gave enough information to know how the character’s lives ended up the way it did. The characters, Fahey, Armando, and Magdalena, were each described with a different persona so that each one sticks out different than the other. Nunn gave the point of view of the characters so the readers can get a sense of what each one of them is thinking of. There’s a character named Fahey, an ex-surfer who took the wrong path and ended up owning and working in his worm farm, which is basically the protagonist in the book. Fahey’s life was described as a rollercoaster and he went into detail about it. Nunn states, “The man was so pissed about not getting more mileage out of a second offense that he kept Fahey in a county lockup for six months awaiting transfer and another six in what they euphemistically called bus therapy-that is, in constant motion, from one facility to another, all the way to Leavenworth and back again.” (77). Nunn describes a scene in which Fahey was arrested for

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