Title: Visions of Gerard
Description: Kerouac called this his "best most serious sad and true book yet." Kerouac weaves his later Buddhist tendencies into a memoir about his Franco-American Catholic childhood, focusing on the time leading up to the death of his beloved older brother Gerard when Jack was five years old and Gerard was nine.
Subjects: Beat generation, Fiction, beat, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature
Places: Lowell, MA