Wild Enough to Get to You

By Devon James Hoffman

Wild Enough to Get to You is an interwoven collection of short stories that describes my (the author's) journey between Ghost Ranch (in my home state of New Mexico) and Romblon (a small island in the Philippines where I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 2013-2015). This book isn't about my service. It is, instead, about what my service was about-the evolution the journey catalyzed in my ideology about art, economics, service, and spirituality. Some of the stories describe real life, and others are fiction. All tend to obscure my actual activity in favor of strange and diversionary tales. For instance, there are stories about an old hippie mourning his mother, a factory inside a snow cave, a hike through a monsoon, a stoned soldier getting hit by a motorcycle, a health-and-wellness retreat center inside a Spanish fort, the prince of Kashmir, toe fungus, asteroid terraformers, a steamboat cruise down the Mississippi, world leaders playing chess, and the untimely death of an icon. These may seem disconnected and eclectic, but they are my memoir. This book achieves its unity by following the journey of my changing paradigm, instead of my physical body. To translate this paradigm-journey through the variety of stories, I've given all the stories common symbols, themes, and motifs. The progression of the stories' themes reflects the progression of my ideology.To delve this variegated narrative is to get swept into the current of a global social river.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540543544
• ISBN13: 9781540543547
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"