The story follows him as he makes his way through the new opportunity life has given him and how he’s still struggling to move through demons still haunting him. Catalina brings Dominic into her home and her family, where Dominic not only is welcomed and loved, but he also meets Flor (short for Florian) Romero, Catalina’s son, who he befriends at first and later finds himself attracted to him. When he’s starting to lose hope, he meets Catalina Romero, an officer who also volunteers at a homeless shelter. Growing up with a mother who didn’t show him the love he deserved, he didn’t care about school and hung out with “the wrong kids.” He landed in juvie at 17 due to being a minor, and then later found himself in jail after more incidents. When he was a kid, Dominic turned to drugs for the first time. Rat Park is emotionally character driven, and it’s Dominic’s story. Around it, the novel centers around Dominic, who had a rough childhood full of drugs and alcohol, a mother who didn’t care for him enough, and a new family that took him in when he thought there would no longer be any hope for him.
“Doesn’t matter to you, maybe,” he replied. You’re here now,” Flor said quietly.ĭominic twitched in his arms. “It doesn’t matter where you’ve been, Dominic. The question is, will Dominic’s past keep him from his future? But life doesn’t prepare him for Flor, who just might be ready to fight tooth and nail for a place in Dominic’s life-and his heart. As he grows older, putting a stop to what Flor obviously wants to happen between them is harder than Dominic would ever want to admit.ĭominic knows that he has too many demons to let anybody get too close. Spitfire, stubborn Flor-even at sixteen, he refuses to be taken lightly. The more she pulls him towards her family, however, the harder it is not to go.Īll his resistance disappears under the force that is Flor Romero. Officer Catalina Romero seems to see something in Dominic that he is sure isn’t there. The world has never been kind to Dominic, but when he meets the Romeros, he wonders if that is about to change. With little left but his own thoughts, Dominic has to decide: Is this what I want for the rest of my life?
Turns out, rock bottom looks a lot like the bars of a jail cell. But life had another hard lesson for him: With drugs, the only way is down.ĭominic hits rock bottom when he’s twenty-three. Anything was better than being conscious. It didn’t cure the ache, but it made him forget it for a while. Or, maybe, it was that he couldn’t even imagine what being loved should feel like.ĭrugs washed all that away. Maybe it began the first time an adult plied him with drinks just to watch him stumble about. Maybe it started when he was six, hiding beneath his blankets as the wild animal noises of one of mom’s parties echoed in his head. Dominic has lived with an empty ache inside him for as long as he could remember.
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