David Homel is the award winning author of nine novels and five works of fiction for younger readers the latter coauthored with MarieLouise Gay In 2021 he ventured into the field of the personal essay with the memoir Lunging into the Underbrush A Life Lived Backward LLP 2021 which part medical memoir and part speculation about the love life of older women and menled Homel to return to the slippery field of self discovery and the remodeling of the past This compelling new book is a meditation about one writers education through a series of essays mixing memoir and fiction truth and make believe