The Flaw in the Fabric, Book 1 of A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls
Combine and let simmer through a wandering lifetime Oz, Tolkien, Alice in Wonderland, the Buddha, the tall tales of a Nova Scotian fishing village and plenty of jalapeños and good grief … and if you’re Jim Lindsey you come up with A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls, a hearty stew in the first book of which a flaw in the fabric of the way things are, and a mad monk who can bring back the dead, jolt down-on-his-luck tour guide Raymond Kidd out of a lethargic solitude, reuniting him with his wives in two separate lifetimes and then tearing him away from them both to go rescue a reformed pirate’s sweetheart from a demon in a realm between lives.
Jim Lindsey is a writer, actor, sailor, photographer, blues singer, Buddhist and Texan living in Nova Scotia with family in California, Colorado, Texas, and Germany. His first book, In Lieu of Mecca, published by University of Pittsburgh Press, was runner-up for the United States Poetry Award. His second, The Difficult Days, translations of poems by Roberto Sosa of Honduras, came out with Princeton University Press. His short short story Message from the Thirteenth Floor took first place in Grain Magazine of Saskatchewan’s annual literary competition.
He has an M. A. in Creative Writing from Boston University and was a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop on Cape Cod.
While living aboard a small sailboat in San Francisco Bay, Lindsey worked as a technical writer and undertook a decade of Buddhist practice and study, at the end of which he moved to Nova Scotia in search of a better lifestyle. Now a dual citizen of the U. S. and Canada, he has lived for sixteen years in Prospect, a seaside village near Halifax.
The following products will soon be available:
- Snapshots from the In Between, a Companion Volume of Verse to A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls
- Book 1 audiobook will be available later this summer