Truth or Consequences, Daniel Asa Rose
Truth or Consequences, Daniel Asa Rose
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Truth or Consequences
Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert

Author: Daniel Asa Rose

Narrator: Brandon Pollock

Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/19/2023


Synopsis

Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan's lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Dan and Tony return to the scene of the crash in an effort to make sense of that fateful moment. He's certain that if he can locate the woman in whose arms he almost died, he will find the self he lost and make peace with his life choices since. Dan moves into a single-wide trailer four blocks from the crash. Over the next eight months, inexplicable encounters make him fall in love with the New Mexico desert and the wiggy place that embraces him.

About Daniel Asa Rose

Daniel Asa Rose won an O. Henry Prize and two PEN Fiction Awards for the stories in his first collection, Small Family with Rooster. His first novel, Flipping for It, a black comedy about divorce, was a New York Times New and Noteworthy Paperback. Daniel is also the author of Hiding Places, the story of how he took his young sons to Belgium to retrace their family's escape from the Holocaust. His book, Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant-and Save His Life, was named one of the Top Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly. Daniel lives in Connecticut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather on October 02, 2023

Wanted to read this as it's a new book and local to me now, spent a few days there this summer. Book started out rocky for me, what am I getting in to? Almost blew it off but the story was intriguing. Funny story telling with a sidecar of local history in 2010 or so. Seems particularly useful now wi......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on June 21, 2023

LOVED this book! At times reminded ne of Kerouac and Whitman......more