"Discount" by Siaosi Tusitala
In “Discount” (ISBN 1467937304), Siaosi Tusitala uses gritty realism to depict the life of a Vietnam era vet who ends up back in Southern California, managing a drugstore in a marginal, racially-striven neighborhood. It is a story by turns, street-tough and tender as it follows Will Morgan, a Navy service member who ends his tour of duty to return home and face civilian life.
His meanderings and incidental achievement in the world of the armed forces make him qualified for a job in retail management. Yet as he learns to steward a drugstore in a southern California ghetto, Will gets a hard-knocks education in a realm of the impoverished world he never knew existed in his own country. Just as he did in the isolation station of Morocco, he learns how to react and evaluate threats and challenges on a nearly instantaneous basis. As neighborhood violence mounts, the decision to carry a concealed weapon weighs heavy in the former soldier’s heart. In private moments of rest, he reflects on his odd journey from wartime Morocco to domestic economic survival during a time of great national malaise.
As Will learns to master retail management in the city’s poor and ghetto stores, he is rewarded with a promotion to one of the corporation’s premium stores in an upscale neighborhood. After his transfer, life is not quite the same. In his new tony neighborhood, he finds employees, supervisors and customers whose worldviews are as equally self-serving and myopic as anything he was exposed to while operating in a poor neighborhood.
“Discount” serves readers a heavy dose of realism as it depicts the lower-level jobs that many must keep to survive in a volatile economy not so different from the one America currently faces. Its slice of working-class, ethnic reality will expose readers to the different viewpoints of people who have had to struggle at the bottom rings of society.
“Discount” is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
About the Author: Siaosi Tusitala is the Samoan name the pseudonymous author received while working on the island nation in the 1990s. This is his second book that draws on his gritty life experience of living in Southern California during the 1970s and 1980s.
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