The unnamed protagonist in this fast-paced autofictional Bildungsroman experiences a memorial
journey through touchstones in his life after suffering a debilitating heart attack. Moving in
and out of illusion and reality on this reflective adventure he encounters seminal events
unusual personalities and disturbing ghosts that help define his essence and that take him
from humble origins through precarious childhood vexing adolescence exceptional education
troubled family life and successful professional career. In a sweeping panorama his story
moves from the American South to the Midwest to the Southwest to Europe and back to the
East Coast. Ultimately humbled by the acute awareness of his own mortality in a scintillating
meditation he comes to see his life epitomized in the woe and wonder of Job and the miraculous
salvation of Jonah.
