Cartilage and Skin

"Cartilage and Skin has it all: a fast-paced narrative, cool language, downtrodden characters, and addictive intrigue. Rizza writes with dark high-energy and philosophical flair about his nervous anti-hero on a self-destructive quest. The story shifts with every page, never losing momentum, always surprising us. Fascinating, ferocious reading."—Deb Olin Unferth, in awarding the Starcherone Innovative Fiction Prize
An urban, brainy thriller that keeps us turning pages via a narrator both seductive and strange and a plot that ever shifts back on itself. This is a world of philosophy and violence, voyeurism and doubt, guilt and intrigue.