The Graybar Hotel Summary
Curtis Dawkins

The Graybar Hotel Overview

Curtis Dawkins’s fictional short story collection The Graybar Hotel transports readers into the reality of the Kalamazoo, Michigan county jail and the state’s prison system during the late '90s and early 2000s, then beyond the bars, into the dreams of its denizens. As the characters cope with constraints of time and space, Dawkins deftly expands on themes of isolation, addiction, and art as liberation.