Bat Dreams: Adventures of another gringo who wanted to be a shaman

By Nathan D Horowitz

After Gateway Mexico, Bat Dreams is the second in the Nighttime Daydreams quadrilogy-in which, in the 1990s, far off the beaten path in Mexico and Ecuador, a young writer searches for healing and knowledge among indigenous people and alone in nature. In Bat Dreams, the narrator visits Secoya territory in Ecuador for four weeks in 1994 and six weeks in 1995. The book contains sex, drugs, violence, mental illness, big tasty rodents, tame wild pigs, leaf-nosed bats, the language of hummingbirds, tiny sky people wearing crowns, and the armadillo that saved the world."Blinking like a tipsy lightning bug in its haptic liminal space, Bat Dreams interrogates and transcends mystical commodity culture." "Incredibly boring, like someone cornering you at a party and telling you every detail of his last LSD trip." "A coming-of-age story, a record of encounters with people and with nature, a diary of spiritual experiences, a book-length prose poem." "This is why English majors shouldn't author books. Just because something is grammatically correct doesn't mean you should write it down." "Kerouac meets Castaneda in the jungle." "Ginsberg does Joyce under a palm tree." "In this second book, the plot thickens, like ayahuasca when it's boiled for a long time." "Wildly beautiful, beautifully wild."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1798219298
• ISBN13: 9781798219294
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"