Attend the free book release of “Atlantic Hotel” on Thursday, May 18th, 7:00 pm, at City Lights Books in San Francisco, California.

About “Atlantic Hotel:” Just who is the narrator of Joáo Gilberto Noll s dark and mysterious Atlantic Hotel? First he books a room where a murder has just occurred, claiming he’s just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves the hotel, telling a cab driver he s an alcoholic headed for detox. After that he hops on an all-night bus headed across Brazil, where he begins to seduce a beautiful American woman. Next he says he s a soap opera actor, which is a bad ideait makes the people he s hitchhiking with want to kill him. Then he impersonates a priest. He travels to yet another town, and this time he knocks on a very wrong door.