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Pale Highway by Nicholas Conley
Pale Highway by Nicholas Conley




The book does a great job of making you realize how important and fulfilling it is, to accept who you are despite of the consequences. "Dignity comes from walking that road from one day to the next, knowing that things might get worse and that everything you love might be taken away from you, yest persevering anyway and never surrendering who you are." The talking slugs and the mysterious Victor whether real or not, guide Gabriel to a final confrontation with himself. The stubbornness and odd requests are their last versions of autonomy. The nursing home friends that he describes are strong individuals who at the end of their life are finding their own ways to show their strength. The people that he loves has continually tried to get him to look past his tendency to self destruct, but his decisions while trying to cure the virus remain stubborn and self serving.

Pale Highway by Nicholas Conley

At over seventy he is still learning who he is and why it's important.

Pale Highway by Nicholas Conley

Recognizing his genius while being afraid of the responsibility of it, Gabriel has to accept his past as it was, knowing that he is beyond being able to fix it. That was perhaps the greatest punishment of all and evilest mockery."






Pale Highway by Nicholas Conley