BLUNT

Book excerpt: Ben Marmot, a man with a life of promise gone wrong, is an anarchist, antiestablishment iconoclast. A well-traveled 64-year-old decorated war hero and sniper in the Vietnam War, his country has all but forgotten him. With each passing day it seems the establishment is taking away more and more of the freedom he depends on to survive. Traumatized by life and suffering from PTSD, angry and bitter, he is reduced to living in a trailer park in Paradise at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Sally, a 33-year-old ethereal being, also lives in Paradise. When Ben meets Sally, they immediately see hope in each other. During the 2018 Paradise wildfire, the deadliest in California’s history, Sally and Ben decided to make a fresh start. Like Thelma and Louise, Bonnie and Clyde, Sally and Ben embark on a road trip?to Key West. As in Jack Kerouac's, On the Road, we follow the journey of this counterculture couple and watch their traumas play out in unbelievable ways. We hear their ideas about a world gone wrong and watch as they become renegades for ‘freedom.’ Written in terse, in-your-face prose, Blunt will force you to think past boundaries to a larger, more complex world. And it will make you wonder about freedom. First though, you’ll have to decide if Ben is proof-positive crazy…and if Sally is even real? A shocking read. Trying to decipher this world and these characters, you’ll marvel at the madness not far from today’s America. With political and media attention focused on what divides us; and the degradation of moral reality into free fall debauchery.…it’s not difficult to imagine Blunt!