The All-American:a Collection of Stories
   
         

Westward Movement

   

          Two friends take off on the highway hoping to escape maturity, a war, and a friend’s death. For fourteen days they battle interstates, maps, an old car, and their own spontaneity in an attempt to understand their nation and what it will make of them by the time they reach its opposite coast.

             If you like the web excerpts from Woodrow Landfair’s Road Journal, you’ll love the full length memoir.  With just $3,000 to spend, Landfair leaves for twelve months on the road taking the reader through forty-eight states in a journey of exploration and understanding.  He stays with wealthy relatives, on friends’ couches, in homeless shelters, and outside in public spaces.   He works an array of odd jobs, meeting drug addicts, illegal immigrants, the greedy and the giving. Meanwhile he develops his identity as a writer, a human being, and an American.