In 70s Los Angeles, an artist built an outdoor installation to honor a dead lover--only to find it taken over by a handful of disenfranchised people with a dangerous agenda--and has to live with the fallout in Scott O'Connor's Zero Zone.
We see the artist's backstory unspool over several chapters, which includes the death of her parents and estrangement from her cinephile brother, threaded with the lives of the people who hole up in the installation--including an affluent teenage runaway, a Las Vegas waitress, a recent parolee, and a charismatic but physically and emotionally scarred young man.
The last chapters have a more cinematic feel, as several untimely prison releases threaten to heighten the danger around the artist again.
This is the kind of literate thriller I have always enjoyed, with musings on the art and film worlds and how a creative life can work for and against people. Recommended.
I checked this out from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library Bookmobile and read it quickly.
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