About This Book
The Decline of the Middle ClassThe author and his wife, having lived through the real Breaking Bad fiasco in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then moved to Austin only to find its doppelganger. Austin's Last Motel is that terror.A couple takes a terrifying journey to finally own their first home. Their story travels many heartbreaking paths populated by corruption, greed, betrayal, and life-threatening horrors. The COVID pandemic reveals to them a terrible surprise of a precipitate decline in health. In their quest for their true home, they are deceived by liars, assaulted by tweakers and robbed by thieves in Austin, the live music capital of the world.Austin's illusion of affluence shatters under the reality of the desperate people they encounter, lost souls consumed by tragic yearning and suffering. This is a story of love persevering against all of life's contemporary obstacles to happiness. Hope, faith and courage bind their hearts together, no matter what horrors they suffer.Densely populated with a carnival of freaks, Austin's Last Motel brings you into the hidden worlds of the addicted, the homeless and the hopeless. They live in the dark corners of every American city and expose the delusion lurking under the promise of the American Dream. In the end, the book's mind-boggling metaphysical ending will leave you wondering about the very nature of reality itself.
