The Salinas Valley

It's an important story that with brothels and like and kill violence and stuff in it. There is a narrative. The two main sets of characters we've got they live in the Salinas Valley in Northern California. It happens in chapters where you get this first person narrator who is a version of John Steinbeck. And maybe I just read enough books that came after this book where a lot of people do that anyway. Like, I've read Dave Foster Wallace.