The Blue Kind (Switchgrass Books) - Inspirational Novel for Book Lovers, Perfect for Reading at Home, Travel & Gifts

The thing about dreams is they are immediate and tangible. They have smells and colors (at least mine do) and sounds that are unmistakable in the dream. The other thing about dreams, especially the really good or haunting ones, is they stay with you long after they are over, like the smell of your first boyfriend's cologne on your pillowcase. "The Blue Kind" is a short novel that achieves both sides of a dream: it is so real that at times your whole body aches like the characters' hangovers or trembles uncontrollably at the drug-induced highs. And then, as if being awakened too soon by the alarm, you are left grasping at what had felt so real only a moment before, unable to transition to the new reality of being awake, knowing that somehow you have been changed permanently. In delicate poetic prose Born glides us through her characters' intersecting lives like a masterful composer whose musicians are drugged-out addicts and whose audience is caught between being voyeurs and active participants. The result is beautiful, crazy, haunting music. And the characters and the audience are left sitting in a room humming with the last vibrations of the strings wondering who will dare break the deafening sound with something ordinary like a cough drop wrapper. This is the best kind of book. Thank you, Ms. Born, for writing it.