Good Reads: Open Throat

Good Reads: Open Throat

Reviewed by Juliette Welch Henry Hoke’s Open Throat opens in the hills beneath the Hollywood sign, narrated by a queer mountain lion living in Griffith Park and watching Los Angeles from the margins. That’s a crazy premise, eh? I thought so too. The whole idea sounds absurd at first, almost like a joke sharpened into literary fiction. A mountain lion narrator should collapse under its own gimmick. But Hoke commits completely to the perspective, …