Synopsis "Those Encountered"
After his identical twin commits suicide, seventeen year-old Christopher Paley is left in a state of confusion and despair, plagued by overwhelming guilt, recurring nightmares, and suffocating depression. When he finds a mysterious book with a vague inscription from the author to his brother, Christopher sets out, by bicycle, on a five-hundred mile journey from Akron, Ohio to Russell Springs, Kentucky in search of answers-answers which, he hopes, will bring clarity about why his brother took his own life. A story about loss, shared human suffering, and those encountered along life's travels, Benjamin A. Berry's newest novel offers the heartbreaking tale of a teen on a desperate journey and the people he meets along the way.
