Days of Grace

DAYS OF GRACE tells the story of Ian Johns a bleary and depressed thirty-one-year-old professional student who in the throes of an early-life crisis brought on by his mother's untimely death from cancer quits law school after surviving the rigors of its proverbially arduous first year to become an itinerant without a plan. With a voice and sensibility that can be likened to Lethem Sedaris Coupland and Kerouac the book is unabashedly picaresque and Neo-Beat written in a roman à clef and journalistic style which has been described as modified stream-of-consciousness. It is at times dark and bittersweet but is relentlessly tinged with bright-sharp edges of humor. As we go forward with Ian on his travels and go back into the near-past to sit at his mother's deathbed in his childhood home viewing the world through his admittedly cracked prism we come away having learned something universal about ourselves Y2K America and maybe even mortality itself.