The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break

"But in the Minotaur’s world it is far easier to kill and devour seven virgins year after year, their rattling bones rising at his feet like a sea of cracked ice, than to accept tenderness and return it."

maybe one of my favorite books of all time. heartbreaking prose about loneliness interrupted with touching moments of human connection. the way sherill depicts isolation is subtle and moving.

This book is a social realist book (working class characters + a relatively open ending) but with a slight twist.  Sherrill brings the magical/mythological world easily to the real world as we follow M, a Minatour currently working as a line cook ( hence the title because from someone who worked in a pub most  chefs have a nicotine problem) and living in a mobile home. We follow him as he makes his way through life. 
I did enjoy this book but it wasn't memorable in my opinion. Whilst I mostly sympathised for M as he was often ridiculed for being half man, half bull, his final act during the last few pages made me hate him.