Why you must read BP Gallucci’s Lexus Sam
Lexus Sam is about a man who wakes up in Manhattan with only a few memories of his past — a life in California, married to Sarah, a girl with green eyes and a yellow rose tattoo. He’s been in a car accident recently, he knows, but not how he got to Manhattan and into someone else’s life. Someone else’s life? Wow, this sounds like an exciting twist on the usual amnesia plot device. What genre is your novel? What kind of readers will it appeal to? Tell us about Lexus Sam. Lexus’s questions about personality and identity, his struggles, and the ultimate conclusion, form the backbone of what this novel is about. You make his story, his journey, sound very personal. That was a tough time for me. A strange time. On one hand, I was in this beautiful land, in the sun, with no concerns for the time of day, comfortably drifting, reading, writing, and on the other hand I had no idea what I was going to do, what I would be doing in the future, who I’d become, who I wanted to become. I’ve put a lot of those anxieties into Lexus Sam and in his story, struggles, and I’m better for it. I’m calmer now. I drink less, sleep more, I have confidence in who I am and how life is going so that there isn’t that desperation informing who I am. We’re pleased to hear it. Tell us about this new calmer person you’ve become. I live in Toronto with my wife Jillian Rose, an extra fluffy cat Errol, and a boisterous, painfully cute and idiotic puppy, Heidi. I was doing an outdoor reading thing two weekends ago, just on the sidewalk with a pillow and a sandwich board, reading aloud to whoever wanted to stop and listen, when this crazed hobo fellow, who had been sniffing varnish or turpentine or something out of one of those tin cans with all the warning labels on it, comes over and without a word, picks up my lunch and throws it on the street, where a cab promptly ran it over. That’d make a good story, I thought to myself, first and foremost and I think that tells more about me than anything else I can put in words. That would make a good story. What can you tell us about it? What’s it about? We cannot wait. Are you on social media? |
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