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

by Daniel Asa Rose

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.

Genres: Nonfiction

296 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 2023

About the author

Author of "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" (Morrow). Called A satisfying, hysterical page-turner that will captivate fans of travel writing and family narratives, with special interest for anyone who's helped a love one through serious illness. Publishers Weekly (starred review) "

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 with the area changing so rapidly.

[Jessica E Patterson-Hill · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Mary Nee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book! You will enjoy reading this !

[Vanessa ❤️ · Rating 3 out of 5]

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