18% Gray

Distraught over the sudden disappearance of his wife Stella, Zack tries to drown his grief in Tijuana, where he encounters a violent scene, and trying to save a stranger's life, he nearly loses his own. He manages to escape in his assailants’ van and makes it back to the US, only to find a bag of marijuana in it.

Using this as an impetus to change his life, Zack sets off for New York with the weed and a vintage Nikon. Through the lens of the old camera, he starts rediscovering himself by photographing an America we rarely see. His journey unleashes a series of erratic, hilarious, and life-threatening events interspersed with flashbacks to his relationship with Stella and life in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s.

A suspenseful, darkly funny love story, 18% Gray won both the Bulgarian Novel of the Year Award and the Flower of the Readers Award when it was first published in 2008.

• Author
• Zachary Karabashliev, Angela Rodel

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 264

• Publisher
• Open Letter

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781934824719

• Settings
• Tijuana, Mexico, New York City, New York

• Genres
• fiction, bulgaria, contemporary, romance, novels, unfinished

• Release date
• 2013