Homeward Bound
By Josh Greenfield
Genre - Autobiographical Stream of Conscience
A young man sits alone in a public garden contemplating the
big questions; the origins of the Palisades Cliffs, cold sesame noodles and his
father's mortality. In the spirit of James Joyce, Josh Greenfield, follows the
thought process of Jordan Fineman, where ever it leads.
My Review
Josh
Greenfield brings readers yet another nonfiction book regarding a man and
mental illness. Homeward Bound is quite different from his debut novel, The
Obsessive Chronicles though. It’s a novella written in a stream of consciousness
style.
The
book is about a man sitting on a park bench and reflecting on quite a bit in
his life, mostly the decline of his father’s health. Greenfield gives us a
realistic portrayal of the power of thoughts.
How they ramble, jump around, take over, and
control the mind. How a simple stop in the
park can be so much more when your brain is on overdrive from both mental
illness and the bustling of life. We all try to do this thing called life one day at a time and
protagonist Jordan Fineman is a good example of how some of us attempt it.
Author Bio
Josh Greenfield is a graduate of both Phillips Andover
Academy and Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. He holds two
masters degrees from the City University of New York, one in History and one in
English Literature. He also completed the better part of a doctorate in English
at Fordham University. His desire in writing is to tell a entertaining and
engaging story, to look for laughs in dark places. He is the author of
"The Obsessive Chronicles: a novel."
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