A Graveyard of First Chapters

"Once a bestselling author, Jasper Delgado has lost his wife, his house, his life savings, his car, and all his possessions except for an old laptop. In that laptop lie many chapters of novels he began but couldn't finish: after success with his first three novels, he's choked. When a letter arrives from a half-sister in Peru he never knew existed, Jasper embarks on an improbable journey that might change his beaten life. As he rereads his graveyard of first chapters, they begin to make uncanny sense. What if this graveyard of creative failures isn't a death sentence but the key to his redemption? By turns comic, philosophical, and heartbreakingly self-aware, A Graveyard of First Chapters walks the blurred lines between fiction and existence, memory and myth. It's a novel about unfinished stories, written on the page and in the heart-and the absurd, glorious, completed puzzle that can be made of all those fragments"-- Provided by publisher.