![]() MMA is a multi-disciplinary sport that combines martial arts, boxing, wrestling and Brazilian jiu jitsu, a form of fighting on the ground that focuses on submission holds. He goes from happy to anxious to angry - not that we don't all do that in our normal lives, but he's now experiencing this sort of at a very amplified degree." He's having violent swings in terms of mood. "He's experiencing short term memory loss. "He's experiencing what I described as a deterioration of his frontal lobe," Vercher says of his character. The groceries rotted in Xavier's car because the beatings and head trauma he suffered over his years in MMA left him unable to remember that he'd bought them. The main character of the book, Xavier, is a veteran mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter who's also grappling with his biracial identity. ![]() That happens in the opening pages John Vercher's new novel, After the Lights Go Out. Imagine opening your car door one morning and being greeted by the stench of groceries, including raw chicken and vegetables, that were left in the backseat overnight in sweltering weather. ![]() ![]() John Vercher is the author of the novels Three-Fifths and After the Lights Go Out. ![]()
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