There's a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came from: A Memoir

There's a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From is the memoir of a young Midwestern man struggling to carve out a life as a writer, and to find meaning, or at least a job, in his new and alien landscape of New York City. In a voice at once coolly detached and utterly confident, we follow Bryan Charles's journey navigating love, work, and family, from the streets of Manhattan to the upper floors of corporate America. This is a gripping meditation on the self, ricocheting between the multitudes and solitude, and between the industrial-turned-residential spaces of Brooklyn and the towers of the World Trade Center, where his life takes an unexpected turn. Charles's story is a spare, honest, and often hilarious narrative of expectation and loss, and of the ordinary becoming the extraordinary.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Open City Books
Published: 11/02/2010
ISBN: 9781890447571
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Booklist 10/01/2010 pg. 14
Publishers Weekly 01/17/2011