Cesar leaves his gangbanging life behind in Los Angeles to help his
mother reconnect with her estranged family in rural Alaska, where
she hopes they both can get a fresh start. When Cesar arrives, he
meets his college dropout cousin, Go-Boy, who believes he's part of
a good world conspiracy and who bets Cesar he will stay in Alaska
for a year. Here is Cesarex-gangbanger from Los Angeles, seventeen
years old, younger brother of a convictgetting off a small bush
plane, walking the gravel tarmac, meeting his rural Alaskan family
for the first time. Here is Cesar, meeting his cousin Go-boybig
hair, Eskimo Jesus tattoo on his forearm, a belief in
heaven-on-earth. Here are the two, touring the tiny village in a
busted up station wagon, stopping on the bridge at the edge of
town, making a bet, I bet you stay in Alaska for a year, both
staring through the windshield and down a road that just ends, both
waiting for something. Here is where the story begins. Sometimes
We're Always Real Same-Same is the account of two unlikely cousins
and their parallel journeys through guilt and loneliness. A
refreshing, coming-of-age story set in a location like no other,
Cesar and Go-boy struggle with their matriarchal family and the
quirky challenges of life in Unalakleet, Alaska. Inevitably,
setting becomes its own character, pushing and pulling against the
other characters. With his absent father and an older brother in
prison for a gang murder, Cesar is badly in need of a male role
model, even in this matriarchal society. In spite of being haunted
by his passive involvement with an LA street gang and his older
brother's involvement in a gang murder, Cesar believes his real
life is waiting for him in California. He sees his time in rural
Alaska as a temporary pit stop to help his mother reconnect with
her estranged family. That is, until he meets Kiana, Go-boy's
stepsister. Cesar muses that Kiana is the type of girl who can
change everything, and after one drunken night of passion between
the two, everything for Cesar does begin to change. He becomes
split by his obsession for Kiana and his budding dependency on
Go-boy. As Go's mental stability deteriorates, Cesar is forced to
choose between fleeing Unalakleet, or staying with the family and
community to help his cousin. Go believes the meaning of life is
creating a heaven on earth, and he tries to rope Cesar into his
cause. When Go-boy falls into a dark depression, Cesar struggles to
understand Go's mental illness and the chain of events that led
Go-boy to attempt suicide. It is then the two cousins realize that
their strength has been in their similarity to each other, and to
the community. Or as Go-boy puts, sometimes we're always real
same-same. What Cesar finally discovers is how starved we are for
the experience of tight-knit community, for being part of and known
by a community, for better or worse, a very exhilarating and
fulfilling and scary phenomenon that certainly penetrates into the
DNA of Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same.
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