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Left To Fry
In the first 20 pages, Christopher Fryer will be fired, go broke, break up with his girlfriend, and become homeless. What happens next is anybody’s guess. At its core, Left To Fry is a love story. Raw, real, and honest.
But it is also about workplace romance, coffee shops, music, mayhem, confusion, elation, the pursuit of happiness, finding a purpose, teaching, learning, an internship with a newspaper, family, and travel. It is about strangers who become friends, flirtations that become relationships, relationships and how they change you forever. It is about movies and entertainment and the pleasures of being alive. It is about the Peace Corps and dentistry and grown-up stuff like insurance, taxes, and affording rent. It’s about mishaps and mistakes and accidents and tragedy. Vulnerability, selfishness, lies, and consequences. It is a love letter to Sacramento, to San Francisco, to the California coastline and its snowy mountain towns. It is a review of the human condition, of being twenty-something with no clue what to do next, of being open to anything and prepared for nothing, of living life without an instructional manual. It is about studying people, studying yourself, and studying abroad. It is about patterns, cycles, and lessons learned along the way.
But at its core, Left To Fry is a love story. Witness true love form in real-time, watch it grow, watch it change, watch it stumble and catch itself, watch it adapt, watch it face challenges and boldly accept those challenges. Will love prevail? Will time and distance interfere? Will it last?
Left To Fry is a decade-long record of a life, scratches and all. Written with the feel of a Bret Easton Ellis novel combined with the poignant nothingness of a Seinfeld episode. Left To Fry is as close as you’ll ever get to stepping into someone else’s shoes. A story that we can all see a little bit of ourselves in.
Reviews “This book felt like a special experience to be let into someone’s hopes and dreams, ups and downs with a sincerity rarely seen in today’s world. I think anyone can find something to relate to in the author’s quest for identity, definitely worth a read.”
But it is also about workplace romance, coffee shops, music, mayhem, confusion, elation, the pursuit of happiness, finding a purpose, teaching, learning, an internship with a newspaper, family, and travel. It is about strangers who become friends, flirtations that become relationships, relationships and how they change you forever. It is about movies and entertainment and the pleasures of being alive. It is about the Peace Corps and dentistry and grown-up stuff like insurance, taxes, and affording rent. It’s about mishaps and mistakes and accidents and tragedy. Vulnerability, selfishness, lies, and consequences. It is a love letter to Sacramento, to San Francisco, to the California coastline and its snowy mountain towns. It is a review of the human condition, of being twenty-something with no clue what to do next, of being open to anything and prepared for nothing, of living life without an instructional manual. It is about studying people, studying yourself, and studying abroad. It is about patterns, cycles, and lessons learned along the way.
But at its core, Left To Fry is a love story. Witness true love form in real-time, watch it grow, watch it change, watch it stumble and catch itself, watch it adapt, watch it face challenges and boldly accept those challenges. Will love prevail? Will time and distance interfere? Will it last?
Left To Fry is a decade-long record of a life, scratches and all. Written with the feel of a Bret Easton Ellis novel combined with the poignant nothingness of a Seinfeld episode. Left To Fry is as close as you’ll ever get to stepping into someone else’s shoes. A story that we can all see a little bit of ourselves in.
Reviews “This book felt like a special experience to be let into someone’s hopes and dreams, ups and downs with a sincerity rarely seen in today’s world. I think anyone can find something to relate to in the author’s quest for identity, definitely worth a read.”
654 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 15, 2021
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