Thelma and the Ptarmigan

About the Book

Three friends go on a big beautiful road trip after college, but the trip doesn’t begin without a major hitch. On the road they get to better know each other, including trying to help the most physical of the three come to terms with having just killed his father, albeit somewhat accidentally. It climaxes with a rainy weekend visiting a favorite female friend, but then another tragedy happens which the narrator can only talk about a month or so later. It says in the opening, “sometimes you have to let best friends fly away….

About the Author

G.T. Hogan was born in 1971 in New Haven, went to college in Boston, and has lived in Telluride, Newport RI, New Orleans, Baltimore, and the Mid-Atlantic's Eastern Shore. He has worn numerous hats including carpenter, cook, historical walking-tour guide, script writer, film location assistant, marketing manager, web designer, salesman, trucker, and most recently organic medicinal herb farmer. Today he lives with his life-partner, two dogs, an old cat, and has three older kids.