Fresh, Green Life: A Novel
Historical fiction, General fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
After a year of self-imposed exile, a young writer attends a New Year&’s Eve party in hopes of reconnecting with old classmates in a blackly humorous tale set on a single snowy nightAfter experiencing a mysterious heart-related health scare, our… narrator, Sebastian Castillo, who shares his name with this book&’s author, resolves to spend a year alone in self-imposed exile, passing the time by exercising each day and watching self-improvement videos.But come New Year&’s Eve, Sebastian will break his expulsion from everyday life by accepting an invitation to the home of a former philosophy professor for a reunion with his cohort, one decade after graduating. This invitation surely would have been ignored if not for the promised attendance of Maria, Sebastian&’s former classmate and love interest. What follows is an inexplicable series of fascinating events charting the erosion of young, bookish hope.Fresh, Green Life is a meditation on literature, education, and philosophy, a trek through the past that forecasts a mediocre future, and a compact miracle of the fake-real.