{"id":24926,"date":"2025-09-21T20:29:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24926"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:53:21","slug":"half-resurrection-blues-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24926","title":{"rendered":"Half-Resurrection Blues, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Half-Resurrection Blues<\/em>, Audiobook<\/a> (2015) Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older<\/a> (Bone Street Rumba# 1)<\/p>\n

\"Half-Resurrection-Blues\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(A)nother little guy is definitely Indian\/Pakistani or maybe Puerto Rican. Or half-black. Whatever he is, he gets randomly searched every time he\u2019s within twenty feet of an airport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cRow seven, bin A.\u201d <\/p>\n

I walk down the aisles, peering at the numbers like I\u2019m using the damn Dewey decimal system for the dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This being is like a diaspora unto himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Carlos Delacruz, Sasha Brass, Trevor Brass, Riley Washington, Dro, Mama Esther, Bartholomew Arsten, Botus, Elton Ellis, Pasternak, Baba Eddie, Kia, Iya Tiomi, Victor, Jenny, Dr. Tijou, Russell Ward, Sarco, Moishe, Mortimer, Old Ginny, Father Reginald, Brad, Amanda, David, Michael<\/p>\n

Publisher: Audible<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Half-Resurrection Blues, Audiobook (2015) Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older (Bone Street Rumba# 1) (A)nother little guy is definitely Indian\/Pakistani or maybe Puerto Rican. Or half-black. Whatever he is, he gets randomly searched every time he\u2019s within twenty feet of an airport. \u201cRow seven, bin A.\u201d I walk down the aisles, peering at the numbers like I\u2019m using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[191,37,204,742,41,34],"tags":[139,138],"class_list":["post-24926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-audio-book","category-good","category-physical-health","category-reread","category-urban-fantasy","tag-bone-street-rumba","tag-daniel-jose-older"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6u2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6225,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6225","url_meta":{"origin":24926,"position":0},"title":"Salsa Nocturna, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"November 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Salsa Nocturna, Audible Version (2012\/2014) Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older, read by the author As with his Bone Street Rumba novels, Daniel Jose Older reads his own work, and it's totally great! 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