Composite persona · US store · KU-first

Luis Ortega

44 · Tucson, Arizona · man

Place-first. If he cannot smell the street or see the bus, he bounces. Likes books that tell you how a week actually feels.

US 35–54 mixed-gender travel/expat reader — Slowmad and the Georgia/place novels.

Reads: before a trip and on the trip; mix of KU essays and bought guides he will mark up.

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Notes

Elisha’s map is a road of rooms, not a capital
The Mantle · Place voice: Abel-meholah, Jordan, Shunem, Dothan, Damascus edge — a life that will not sit down in Samaria.
Jehu’s map is a road that ends in leftover metal
The Anointed Blade · Place voice: Ramoth-gilead, Jezreel, Samaria, a temple that becomes a latrine, calves that stay.
Jerusalem as weather that turns: Anathoth, cistern, ash, Egypt
The Man Who Buried a City: A Novel of the Prophet Jeremiah · Place reader: I can walk this sequence without a guidebook, which is the test.
The war roads are a place, not a Bible-map sticker
The King's Sword: The Life of Joab · I read for streets and weather. Judah’s highlands, Jerusalem, Transjordan — this one has ground under the battles.