Eastbound

About this book

Six months after a disastrous patient transport job leaves a vulnerable patient and his best friend, Lucas, seriously injured, Josh sets off alone on the journey across Canada they had planned to take together. He tells himself that distance will help him move on. That if he travels far enough, the guilt will fade and the version of events he has chosen to live with will become easier to believe. Instead, the past follows him. From Vancouver to the Rockies and across the endless Prairies, ordinary moments pull Josh back to the night he is trying to escape: a reflection in a mirror, a carry chair, the colour of a stranger’s dress. As he meets fellow travellers carrying regrets and secrets of their own, the story he has built around his greatest mistake begins to unravel. Among them is Claude, an elderly widower whose own past has followed him for fifty years. Through their unlikely friendship, Josh is forced to confront a truth he has spent six months avoiding. Because some journeys are not about leaving the past behind. They are about finally turning to face it.