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Merica

Joshua Daniel Cochran

4/5 ( ratings)

A multiple-tour war veteran and amputee returns to life in America only to find himself untethered and disconnected in a terrible interiority. On what might be his last day alive, he navigates his way through the American landscape as multiple stories surround and build around his tale, leading to a culmination that shows a greater connection between all things.

Merica is a mainstream, literary novel with a postmodern, craquelure aesthetic in the traditions of Murakami, Ellis and DeLillo. While certainly fractured, the stories that intertwine and weave around each other are centered on the tale of Andy Newcomb, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and his experiences in New York on the Ides of March. The other stories concern a girl running away from an abusive situation, an old man on a quest for cheese, two NYPD cops on the beat, a homeless man on the run from satellites, a sparrow, a Christian suicide bomber, a Muslim suicide bomber, a young drifter dealing with sorrow in New Bedford, a housewife in Iowa, an icecutter who lost his life a hundred years earlier, and many more. The stories are written from different voices and points of view, depending on the narrator, but all center around Andy’s experience in a growing crescendo of interconnectivity and significance. Regardless of time, the stories build and unite into a mosaic of humanity, creating hope for the protagonist, and America as well.

Pages: 314

Format: Kindle Edition

Merica

Joshua Daniel Cochran

4/5 ( ratings)

A multiple-tour war veteran and amputee returns to life in America only to find himself untethered and disconnected in a terrible interiority. On what might be his last day alive, he navigates his way through the American landscape as multiple stories surround and build around his tale, leading to a culmination that shows a greater connection between all things.

Merica is a mainstream, literary novel with a postmodern, craquelure aesthetic in the traditions of Murakami, Ellis and DeLillo. While certainly fractured, the stories that intertwine and weave around each other are centered on the tale of Andy Newcomb, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and his experiences in New York on the Ides of March. The other stories concern a girl running away from an abusive situation, an old man on a quest for cheese, two NYPD cops on the beat, a homeless man on the run from satellites, a sparrow, a Christian suicide bomber, a Muslim suicide bomber, a young drifter dealing with sorrow in New Bedford, a housewife in Iowa, an icecutter who lost his life a hundred years earlier, and many more. The stories are written from different voices and points of view, depending on the narrator, but all center around Andy’s experience in a growing crescendo of interconnectivity and significance. Regardless of time, the stories build and unite into a mosaic of humanity, creating hope for the protagonist, and America as well.

Pages: 314

Format: Kindle Edition

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