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Morris, Alive

by Joel Bowman

An outsider’s journey through America

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An outsider’s journey through America

Morris arrives at JFK from a small coastal hometown thousands of miles away, confronting a country whose scale and pace unsettle his sense of where he belongs. A wanderer and barroom philosopher, he becomes the lens for a journey across America, framed around questions of freedom, opportunity, and the country’s larger ideals. The description also gestures beyond the present, placing the adventure across America’s past and future. Its central tension is between a newcomer’s effort to interpret a vast national identity and his search for a place within it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in literary fiction centered on an outsider’s perspective.
  • Readers drawn to journeys across America and explorations of national identity.
  • Readers interested in themes of freedom, opportunity, and belonging.

Themes

Outsider perspectiveAmerican identityFreedom and opportunityBelongingJourney across time

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Book overview

A new work of literary fiction for a new American era; one that celebrates life, freedom and opportunity for all.

 

Morris is a wanderer, a dreamer, a barroom philosopher and an incurable - some would say insufferable - romantic. By the time he arrives in a trance at JFK International, on the eve of a new and dauntless century, he is also nine and a half thousand miles from his tiny coastal hometown on the other side of the planet.

 

Unmoored in a bold new country, which is hurtling through time at a blistering, maniacal pace, and set wide-eyed among its strange and wonderful citizens, Morris at first struggles to understand the 'Idea of America' and, by extension, his own place within it.

 

So begins a classic adventure tale, one spiriting readers across America, past and future, as told through the uniquely observant eyes of an outsider looking in.

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