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This is a novel of wanderlust, the simplest joys, youth and disillusionment, a raw portrayal of traveling and being misplaced in the 21st century. At twenty-two, Sonny travels alone for the first time in Vietnam where he socializes and has relationships he's only fantasized and read about. He returns home to Canada and becomes obsessed with traveling, wanting to abandon his prior life and future to travel indefinitely. He boards a bus to Montreal, Quebec. Yet the memory of his first trip reels through the streets of Montreal. He meets Alex, a French woman who tempts him with the hidden knowledge of his obsessions. Soon he leaves to continue his journey through Ontario where he befriends Melody, an exotic dancer, reunites with Tracy, an international student from Vietnam, and then to British Columbia where he finds nothing but an origin, a start to further departures. Sonny, lost in his brutal observations, is trying to rationalize a world that is constantly beating him with experience. Autobiographical fiction. Told in a minimalist, punctuation-sparse, descriptive prose.

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Sonny Gast began reading books at nineteen years of age. He started with philosophy; going from the ancients to continental to post-modernism. He was not initially interested in stories, theatre, art or drama. He started to read fiction after realizing the reading of philosophy lacked what he was reading it for. Then he discovered that in him were mountains of interest for the arts. A world-shifting book for him is The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. He rarely enjoys what he reads. His favourite writers are Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, Gerald Murnane and Bruce Chatwin. His writing strives for simplicity and personal truth. He does not care to entertain or inspire, but to suggest and ponder.

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