Souljourner

...The reader is immediately pulled intimately into the story as a reincarnation of David, who speaks to the reader as a future version of himself who he is trying to warn of the pitfalls he encountered with fellow travelers along his karmic path.

As a sojourner takes up temporary residence in a place, so David uses “Souljourner” to indicate that the reader is his spirit in a new body without the benefit of memories from previous lives. In at least one of these previous lives, that of David’s own, the spirit of the reader is a convicted murderer with an inescapable karmic nemesis: Blossom.

As David narrates his life in an effort to warn his future self away from Blossom and enjoy a rich life with his true soul mate, he is interrupted by other members of his “Karmic Pod” who provide their own bits of information. Blossom is one such interrupter, describing her treatment at the hands of her lying husband. Another is prison psychologist Russell Rivers, whose intense dislike of David appears unfounded and is admittedly professionally unethical. Even David’s soul mate, Anna in his incarnation, makes a few appearances to provide additional details and support for his story and its importance to the reader’s life.

Having been convicted of murdering his wife and soul mate Anna, David is being counseled by Dr. Rivers as he serves his life sentence in prison, haunted both literally and figuratively by the ghost of his dead second wife, Blossom. The result is a riotous, confusing, intriguing peek into David’s existence that highlights his desire to provide fulfillment and happiness to his future self.

—Review by Jackie Kook for the Online Book Club

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