The Beautiful Ashes of Gomez Gomez | Buck Storm

Literary Americana fiction filled with humor and heart

When his wife, Angel, is killed in a head-on collision, Gomez Gomez feels he can't go on--so he doesn't. He spends his days in the bushes next to the crash site drinking Thunderbird wine, and his nights cradling a coffee can full of Angel's ashes. Slow, sure suicide, with no one for company but the snakes, Elvis's ghost, and a strange kid named Bones.

Across town, Father Jake Morales plays it safe, haunted by memories of the woman he left behind, hiding his guilt, loss, and love behind a thick wall of cassock and ritual. Then a shady business deal threatens the town--and his good friend Gomez Gomez--and Father Jake can't just stand by and watch. But what happens when the rescuer is the one in need of saving?

The Beautiful Ashes of Gomez Gomez is quirky, heartfelt, and deeply human. Lives and hopes collide in the town of Paradise, stretching across decades and continents in this epic story of forgiveness, redemption, and love.

First, I would like to extend a heartfelt “Thank you” to Buck Storm and his publisher for sending me a copy of "The Beautiful Ashes of Gomez Gomez" to review for them. I am truly grateful for this generosity. I really appreciate the time, effort and expense it takes to make a reviewer copy available to me.

“The Beautiful Ashes of Gomez Gomez” by Buck Storm is a beautifully written book with interesting characters dealing with a tough subject matter: life.  The small town of Paradise, Arizona is the home of some very different personalities.

This book reads as if you’re sitting in a corner just watching life happen!  How each life weaves into the next creates a beautiful tapestry called community.  So few novels read like this one.  The characters attach to the reader’s heart like friends.  Ahhh, what a refreshing read!  It fills me with the desire to carve out, engage and nurture my own community in this time when neighbors don’t even speak to each other.