Perfect Dirt

<i><b>Recounted with humor and honesty Lester invites us into his life as he struggles with masculinity and searches for a place where he fits.</b></i> <p/> Words have meaning and meaning evolves over time. In <i>Perfect Dirt</i> Keegan Lester drags us through his failure to grasp the meaning that always seems to be just beyond his fingertips. These lyrical vignettes depict a lifelong search for home identity and the language to say the things we wish we could tell people in the moment. <p/> Born in Southern California to parents who had migrated from West Virginia and South Florida Lester spent summers with his grandparents in Morgantown which instilled a deep anchor of place that continued to call to him an Appalachian at heart even while living in New York City as a poet. As small successes started to come his way--a book and numerous tours--so did crises. Lester's father meanwhile experiencing his own life crisis embarked on a journey to sail the Caribbean. Both end up lost. <p/> Part memoir part tour diary part homage to the places and people who have made him who he is <i>Perfect Dirt</i> digs into the sometimes painful sometimes jubilant questions of identity and success. This is a book searching to better understand the world and our place in it the family we're born into and the family we make along the way. <p/>Hear the author read an excerpt from the <i>Perfect Dirt</i>.