Keno in Reno — Ed Park

Keno in Reno is a story about a San Francisco college grad stuck in the 90's California Recession who decides to move to Reno, Nevada looking for work. He finds work, but he also encounters a whole menagerie of wild, crazy experiences involving casinos, bars, booze, guns, drugs, strippers, prostitutes, Burners, ballroom dancers, Christians, addicts, Polish cocktail waitresses, roller derby girls, a rave, a riot, prison, fights, suicide, homicide, bar crawls, and costume parties. This is a firsthand account of Reno's “Golden Years” of partying until the Great Recession, its Roaring 00's, synaptic sparks of blacked out bliss, intrigue, sex, lust, violence, and mayhem.