A Pilgrim and a Stranger: A Memoir Part One

A Pilgrim and a Stranger is a memoir of a boy growing up in the American Midwest in the 1950s and 1960s, telling the story of an America before superhighways and shopping centers blighted the land. As a teenager, he went to live in Germany and spent months traveling alone through Europe, still very much a post-war world. In the 1970s, he came of age in Missoula, Montana, where he experienced wilderness and new intellectual and spiritual worlds, and then in Berlin, Germany, where he worked as a dishwasher in the divided city. It is a story of personal discovery and expanding horizons against the background of religious fundamentalism, the social revolution of the 1960s, the Vietnam War, political terror in Germany, failed relationships and intellectual and spiritual searching.