Description: Fiction. ROBERT WALKER is homeless. He awakes one morning in his box to find half his face paralyzed. In anguish, he walks to mimic normality. He also walks because walking for him is life. Eventually, in opposition to his dedication to desired anonymity, he is forced to rejoin the world. The novel follows two crucial days in his journey while he traverses Memphis, encountering the familiar, the foreign, the desolate, and the joyous.
Brief description: Corey Mesler has published novels, story collections, and poetry. He and his wife Cheryl run one of the oldest book stores in America, Burke's Books.