Staring down heartbreak and regret Stewart Simmons flees a haunted Philadelphia for the beauty of the West. In a raw yet lyrical voice that gives life to the urgency and appetites of youth West of Love takes place in a time before the internet before cell phones before technology changed the ways we live and love. And as an older Stewart looks candidly back at his younger self a picture of the human heart emerges--one that offers a testament to how we heal how we go on.