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by John Otterbacher Otterbacher (Author)
"What Remains" is an intense first-person road book, travel in the extreme - old man, old
motorcycle, three thousand miles of old broken roads. Mountains and deserts and small town
America, three hundred potholed miles at a time.
Out of the way characters in the empty places where they hack out an existence. The grit and
grace it takes to get by, the natural beauty that revives the old guy's affection for people as
they are.
What it takes to get old too, sunburn and ache at the end of the day, nothing left but the
attention he brings to himself and the folks having dinner at the next table. The hard-won
clarity that comes with solitude and exhaustion, the glacial attrition of age and decline - body,
brainpan, capacity to dream.
"What Remains" is a present tense account of an old man's quest out beyond the
mate seeking and resume building and family raising that dominate the mid-section of life.
How to navigate loss and diminishment, the dark certainty of death? It is a journey that
reignites a sense of adventure about aging itself, the ingredients of a rich and passionate
life.
All this and that distracting crash in Death Valley.
