Off Boulder Highway. Hybrid Memoir, Poetry, and Fiction by Jennifer Battisti. 176 pages. Paperback. July 13th, 2021. ISBN 9781948800396.

Within the pages of Off Boulder Highway—a hybrid work of poetry, memoir, and surrealistic prose—we encounter Vegas landmarks that act as characters, Reagan era disasters, the loss of a father. Jennifer Battisti—an ‘80s latchkey kid, now mother—transforms narrative into a pop-culture artifact filled with people as beautiful as they are broken, unexpected heroes like L.L. Cool J and Hulk Hogan, trauma, addiction, disaster, and ritualistic paths to redemption.