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Why I Dream Of Falling

by Sean Thomas Sullivan

Summary

Jacob "Mojo" Reosenburg has a reoccurring dream that he has fallen, or to be more exact, has been pushed from a tall building to plunge to his death. he wakes from this dream to an overbearing girlfriend, the undeniable fact that he's over thirty, an unchallenging job, a fear of being a mediocre dad, and a handful of friends just as lost and messed up as him. Why I Dream Of Falling chronicles Jacob's attempts to unravel the mystery of his dreams, whle struggling with his disillusionment with life, knowing he needs to figure out both to find any peace of mind. The story takes place in mid-town of Sacramento, CA, and the settings--Tower Theater, Weatherstone Coffee & Trading, Press Club, Taco Loco, Greta's Cafe--all exist within the grid of streets half a mile East of California's state capital. The novel reads part slice-of-life, part psychological thriller, but with more laughs than you would expect from either genre. Many of these come in the form of Jacob's journal "When I first arrived in Sacramento in the mid-eighties, I saw two phrases graffitied on the walls around town, 'God is Love' and 'Fear God.' This had the profound influence on my young, 18-year-old mind. I formed the Fear Love."