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Wrong Flight Home
It is the summer of 2008 and Joshua Chamberlain lives half of his life in a love story, the other half in an adventure. Sure, his wife and high school sweetheart Elise keeps him happily grounded whenever they’re together, so why is he torn between the comforts of home and the free-spirited lifestyle of a nationwide-renown Pulitzer Prize photographer, navigating through a seemingly unending gauntlet of unbelievable episodes and the moral depravities associated with the open road to capture the bride and groom on their wedding day? Imagine then how Joshua’s very foundations are shaken when he arrives home one summer afternoon to discover that his wife is leaving him for another man.
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407 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 3, 2013
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August 5, 2015
Joshua has a problem. Well, several problems, really. First and foremost, his job as a wedding photographer requires that he travel all over the country every weekend.
Which leads to his second problem. His drop-dead-gorgeous wife of six years, Elise, gets lonely when he's gone so often. Which leads to his THIRD and most important problem. She's left him for another man.
What follows is a series of plot counterpoints that all add up to one thing: Joshua is saddened, hurt, and dumbfounded that his supposedly happy marriage has imploded so unexpectedly.
He meets good-hearted hookers and strippers, encounters mysterious characters like The Homeless Man, and a sometimes sinister figure with a bowler hat. None of this, however, can keep Joshua from crumbling inside and experiencing random sexual fantasies that he somehow never indulges. The intense sorrow, however, is real.
He meets up with some old friends and they grieve over a lost relationship.
"Susan cried. Even Michael's eyes swelled up and he cried. And then all three of us huddled in a group to have a good cry together. Elise was gone, the northern star and fourth corner of our circle. All that remained was the east, the south, and the west. And that, as we well know, is not a working compass."
Eventually an old college chum named Meat Duck -- his real name is Alex -- shows up and becomes Joshua's apprentice photographer. They fly to Hawaii to capture a client's wedding, and Alex discovers that maybe he doesn't have the eye for professional event photography, after all.
Sometime much later, Joshua runs into his high school first love -- Leah -- at, where else, a wedding -- this one in Boston. The encounter ends badly and Joshua finds himself alone -- again.
A series of events then transpire to lead Joshua from one predicament to another. He crosses paths with The Homeless Man again, and faces down a gang of toughs called The Lost Boys -- led by none other than the man in the bowler hat.
Joshua's friends are there for him, however, as he negotiates his way down the slippery slope that leads to a new life without his beloved Elise.
Will he ultimately make it, and rise above the many strange forces trying to bring him down? You'll just have to read it and see.
I give Wrong Flight Home four stars. I received a free copy in exchange for my honest review.
Which leads to his second problem. His drop-dead-gorgeous wife of six years, Elise, gets lonely when he's gone so often. Which leads to his THIRD and most important problem. She's left him for another man.
What follows is a series of plot counterpoints that all add up to one thing: Joshua is saddened, hurt, and dumbfounded that his supposedly happy marriage has imploded so unexpectedly.
He meets good-hearted hookers and strippers, encounters mysterious characters like The Homeless Man, and a sometimes sinister figure with a bowler hat. None of this, however, can keep Joshua from crumbling inside and experiencing random sexual fantasies that he somehow never indulges. The intense sorrow, however, is real.
He meets up with some old friends and they grieve over a lost relationship.
"Susan cried. Even Michael's eyes swelled up and he cried. And then all three of us huddled in a group to have a good cry together. Elise was gone, the northern star and fourth corner of our circle. All that remained was the east, the south, and the west. And that, as we well know, is not a working compass."
Eventually an old college chum named Meat Duck -- his real name is Alex -- shows up and becomes Joshua's apprentice photographer. They fly to Hawaii to capture a client's wedding, and Alex discovers that maybe he doesn't have the eye for professional event photography, after all.
Sometime much later, Joshua runs into his high school first love -- Leah -- at, where else, a wedding -- this one in Boston. The encounter ends badly and Joshua finds himself alone -- again.
A series of events then transpire to lead Joshua from one predicament to another. He crosses paths with The Homeless Man again, and faces down a gang of toughs called The Lost Boys -- led by none other than the man in the bowler hat.
Joshua's friends are there for him, however, as he negotiates his way down the slippery slope that leads to a new life without his beloved Elise.
Will he ultimately make it, and rise above the many strange forces trying to bring him down? You'll just have to read it and see.
I give Wrong Flight Home four stars. I received a free copy in exchange for my honest review.
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