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Jetson's journey. a novel by Brock Alston. Cover shows a man and a dog sitting on a hill while watching the sun set.

Jetson's Journey

"REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES meets IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE—a novel about loss, love, and a dog who knows that the heart keeps flowering."  

What does a man do when the life he built disappears in a single day? Michael Smith drives east with a duffel bag and Jetson—the black Lab his daughter loved, the last living thread to the life he lost. He has nowhere else to go and ends up in Franklin, Tennessee. He takes a job stocking groceries, walks the dog, and quietly begins to write.

He doesn't expect the bookstore owner with the steady hands and the sharp questions. The neighbor's hostility turns out to hide something more complicated. Franklin, somehow, makes a place for him before he'd thought to ask. And he doesn't expect someone to see him before he's ready to be seen.

Michael went east to disappear. Jetson wouldn't allow it.

Contemporary literary fiction about what we choose, what's chosen for us, and what is asked from us in return.

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