Journeyman
Subtitle: a novel
By: Marc Bojanowski
Edition: Soft Skull Press edition.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781593766610
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Building; Fiction; Brothers; Belonging (Social psychology)
Description: Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. 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. Bereft of his trailer and his tools, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life.