After the Death of the Ice Cream Man
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When his troubled mother is killed in a car accident, Jonah Swain finds himself confronting the ghosts in his family's complex past, images of depression and alcoholism which have scattered his family and threatened to close him off to love and happiness. As he embarks on a journey through an intricate landscape of memories and emotions, Jonah comes to realize he must finally face a vision of lost innocence that has disturbed him since childhood, and rise above a tangled past of heartbreak and estrangement. At times poetic and raw, filled with both anger and sadness, After the Death of the Ice Cream Man is a somber but ultimately transcendent meditation on death, mourning, and the rediscovery of love.
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Simply put, I loved it. It sounds conflicting to say, but there is a simple complexity about it that that I enjoyed; almost how life seems so simple when you look at the parts, but is chaotic when you look at it as a whole. It is a story of things lost and things found. It is a story of how the utterly mundane in life can be poetic and interwoven; I for one will never look at a streetlight again without wondering about its ripple affects. While I had more than a few awkward “crying in public” moments with the book–maybe put a warning label on the next printing–I also found myself chuckling at the absurdity that is life as portrayed by the author. Thanks for writing it.
