Journeyman

Description:

Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. In 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan builds tract homes across California, travelling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean. On his way he passes through his brother's town where circumstances force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life.

subjects: Building,  Fiction,  Brothers,  Belonging (Social psychology),  Brothers, fiction,  Fiction, general,  New York Times reviewed,  American fiction,  Brothers -- Fiction,  Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction,  Building -- Fiction