The Tailgater
Publisher Description
A visit to a college football game unearths skeletal souls who joyously drink mezcal and dance until sunrise in Corusoe's visceral and delightfully skewed portrait of life in America.
It helps to know mezcal, a distilled alcoholic beverage from Oaxaca, Mexico. is made from the heart of the maguey plant. The plant, a desert succulent, is split open with an axe and roasted in a tarp covered pit for several weeks, from which mezcal gains its distinct smoky flavor.