The Volunteer is not a story. It is a journey inside the head of a chronically homeless man. It has been divided into ten ‘chapters’ for posting and display purposes but the original book, published in 2013, had no chapters. This is an online presentation of the original book. No other edits have been or will be made. It is finished.
This journey is not my life, though when my sister read the book, she immediately called me and said, “We have to talk. You obviously had a different father than I had.” It took a while to convince her that no matter what of our homelife and settings she might have recognized, the narrative was fiction, not an autobiography.
Yet, in many ways, it is also the beginning of my journey. In 2013, I set out in a truck and travel trailer to live the life of a nomad author. I have been on the road ever since. I let G2 open the door for me.
My daughter, who loves dark literary fiction, believes this is the best of my novels. I love her anyway.
Comments
Please feel free to send comments to the author at nathan@nathaneverett.com.
