People keep asking me for recommendations on books and writing teachers and shapewear and kayaks–you know, all the cool flotsam and jetsam of life in America. I can’t always keep track of all the stuff I love, so here is a page to keep track of it all!
On my mind this morning is a new novel out from Vancouver, B.C. novelist Lloyd Meeker. Traveling Light is first and foremost a journey story, a coming of spiritual age story, a character driven story that happens to have a gay male gender context. I was really swept away into its multi-dimensional time travel love story. I love it when find an author like Meeker who can “call down the lightning” onto the page.
Here’s a description of the plot: “An eye for an eye… Ian McCandless is a hospice nurse, training to become a shaman. When his mentor orders him to make peace with his estranged family, Ian reluctantly agrees, anticipating just another conflict-filled visit. On their way from the airport Ian’s older brother Will interrupts a convenience store robbery and is shot, dying in Ian’s arms and calling to him for vengeance. Ian uses his shamanic abilities to track down the killer, but his quest soon turns into a hunt for revenge—forbidden to any shaman. Ian’s pursuit jeopardizes his relationship with the spirit world, endangers the lives of those he loves and threatens to banish him from the only path that gives his life meaning.”
How kewl is that?
