"I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed." - opening line of The New Life, by Orhan Pamuk

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

THE JOURNEYMAN, by Marc Bojanowski

Journeyman is a strongly-written novel about a drifter with a "still waters run deep" personality who mostly runs from and occasionally confronts his own moral compass. The book starts with the latest run from himself, which results in his "temporarily" staying with his pothead and rather paranoid brother "Cosmo" (his real name, Chance, seems more appropriate. In this seemingly idyllic northern California town, plagued at the moment by a serial arsonist, the protagonist manages both his brother and his own conscience. I was disappointed by the ending, but other than that, it is a good and engaging book.

For a review of this book from NY Times, click here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/books/review/journeyman-marc-bojanowski.html?_r=0