Days of Grace Author:Mark Falkin DAYS OF GRACE tells the story of Ian Johns, a bleary and depressed thirty-one-year-old professional student, who, in the throes of an early-life crisis brought on by his mothers untimely death from cancer, quits law school after surviving the rigors of its proverbially arduous first year to become an itinerant without a plan. With a voice and se... more »nsibility that can be likened to Lethem, Sedaris, Coupland and Kerouac, the book is unabashedly picaresque and Neo-Beat, written in a roman à clef and journalistic style which has been described as modified stream-of-consciousness. It is at times dark and bittersweet but is relentlessly tinged with bright-sharp edges of humor. As we go forward with Ian on his travels and go back into the near-past to sit at his mothers deathbed in his childhood home, viewing the world through his admittedly cracked prism, we come away having learned something universal about ourselves, Y2K America and maybe even mortality itself.« less