Pay As You Go
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    [synopsis] => New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours. 

Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide-a barber with an opaque past-embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods. As he bounces from foldout couch to disaster-relief tent, falling in with some tough types, Slide begins to realize that he's going to have to scratch and claw just to claim a place for himself in this world-let alone a place with in-unit laundry. 

An exuberant, fantastical odyssey, Pay As You Go wonders if what we're searching for is ever really out there. Its pages-surreal, biting, and teeming with life-announce the startling talents of Eskor David Johnson, who knows that all any of us really want is a place to rest our head. Eskor David Johnson is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. His writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was the recipient of the Richard Yates Short Story Prize, the Maytag Fellowship and the Teaching-Writing Fellowship, he currently lives in New York City. "In the wild and brilliant Pay As You Go, Eskor David Johnson conjures up extraordinary characters and vivid scenes. I would have followed his narrator Slide anywhere as he makes his way through the shape-changing city of Polis. I thought of Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, I thought of Zadie Smith's White Teeth but Johnson is, first and last, himself, a novelist of tremendous imagination and impassioned voice."  

--Margot Livesey


"Eskor Johnson's exuberant narrative voice, and his larger-than-life characters will stay with you long after you've finished reading."

 --De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills
"Eskor David Johnson has created a rich and textured landscape in PAY AS YOU GO, a vividly surreal debut novel with a hero you won't forget." --Regina Porter, author of The Travelers
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