Rating: 3 stars

Russell Capshaw looked around in foggy confusion, before realizing he's in a Chinese opium den, having spent the last few days in a drug-induced haze.

An advertising executive from Manhattan, Russ and his co-workers just closed a big deal in Tokyo. But, while his colleagues walked away giddy with professional pride, Russell simply walks away.

Alone in the world, save for an estranged uncle living in Ireland, Russ comes to the realization that he’d spent the past eight years toiling away at a job that, in the end, had no real meaning or purpose. Having lost his parents in a car accident years ago, and with no real friends outside of work, going off the grid would meet with little resistance or concern.

It is with a heavy heart and empty soul that Russell Capshaw begins his quest to find happiness and meaning in his life—starting with Ireland.

Padre is one man’s personal journey from his Manhattan home, to the frantic pace of Tokyo, before hitting bottom with a hallucinogenic bender outside of Bangkok. Through Russell Capshaw, Leeper pens a sublte wake-up call to the millions of people who are simply existing and going through the motions of life without any true direction or personal fulfillment .

A story of monumental loss, renewal, and gaining inner peace, Jennifer Leeper’s prose is soft, serine, and beautifully crafted. Though her message is quite clear, it’s delivered with a gentle hand.
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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 111 KB
Publisher: J. Burrage Publications, LLC (September 19, 2011)
ASIN: B005OBL5WM