![]() ![]() This is just the set-up, but things get even weirder. ![]() So the question of “whodunit?” is complicated by the fact that nobody even knows who he or she really is. The town is actually a kind of penal colony. You see, the residents of The Blinds have had their memories selectively wiped as part of an advanced “fresh start” program for criminals. What makes solving the mystery tricky is a science-fiction spin. The Western turns into a mystery when residents of The Blinds start turning up dead. Or at least he’s supposed to be the only one with a gun. Sheriff Cooper doesn’t have much to do in The Blinds seeing as there are only about fifty residents and he’s the only one with a gun. It’s a dusty desert town, or “glorified trailer park,” set down in the middle of a West Texas nowhere, with the only link to the outside world being a weekly mail-and-supplies run and a clunky fax machine. ![]() Calvin Cooper is the sheriff of the town of Caesura, a place known locally (and less pretentiously) as The Blinds. ![]() In the first place we might think of it as a Western. In The Blinds Adam Sternbergh, who grew up in Toronto and now lives in Brooklyn, has created a multi-layered hybrid of a novel strengthened by several different bloodlines. Genre fiction is made healthier through cross-breeding. ![]()
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