A classic hero’s journey, full of the romance of the open road, from a Saskatchewan grain farm to the west coast of Vancouver Island on a quest for his estranged father, meeting draft dodgers and rebelling youth along the way
Kerouac's On the Road and Homer's Odyssey meets Guy Vanderhaeghe's Western trilogy
Explores themes of individual virtue, the necessity of stoicism and redemption through love, and the damage of childhood trauma
Author is deeply connected to the B.C. literary community; his experience includes past editor at Anvil Press, creative writing instructor at UBC and Langara College, hosting literary festival events, and as a poet and novelist
Setting: Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia