William Schrader

The Healing Road: a Novel About Two Strangers Running from Themselves William Schrader

John is driving north to escape Mexico and the thousand memories that peck constantly at his festering wounds. He has no destination, seeking only a severance from pain as he stumbles down his road to nowhere. He picks up a bedraggled hitchhiker in the desert, hoping the company will keep him awake on the long boring highway. What he expected would be a brief diversion from boredom turns out to be a long road strewn with fear, frustration and terror. John finds his career as an engineer has ill-prepared him to cope with the problems of the new world into which he gets dragged by this dusty, cynical but beautiful hitchhiker. John and Sarah are running from problems of both past and present, and though they now flee from darkness to darkness together, they bring light, love and enlightenment into each other's lives and confront their fate with a new passion for living. New Mexico serves as a backdrop for their fleeing, their hiding and the lancing of wounds that had set them both on their journey down THE HEALING ROAD.