About this item
From the author of The Dogfighter, hailed by Geoff Dyer as "the most exciting debut ... by an American writer since Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides," comes Journeyman, a tightly wound novel about dwelling, building, belonging, love, and the value of a place to call home. Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. Set in 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan builds tract homes across California, travelling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean.On his way he passes through his brother's town where circumstances force him to stay put.
About the Author
Marc Bojanowski is the author of the novels "The Dog Fighter" (Morrow, 2004) and "Journeyman" (SoftSkull, 2017) . His work has appeared in The Literary Review, McSweeney's, and Granta. He is an adjunct instructor in the English Department at Santa Rosa Junior College.
