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Overview
A broken turbine blade blasts through a jet engine, destroying a window in the fuselage next to where Mike Logano is sitting on a flight from his home in Bellingham, Washington, to Los Angeles where he hopes to find Lisa, his runaway sister.
He is sucked out of the plane and in 127 seconds falls 25,463 feet, every few thousand feet reliving moments in his life as he anticipates ending as a squash of raspberry-jammed organs and splintered bone.
The montage from his past includes:
...ignoring a plea for help from a Navy petty officer who is pushed overboard from an aircraft carrier by another sailor.
...graduating with an associates degree in culinary arts and running a Puerto Rican food truck.
...rescuing a stray dog from being terrorized by street thugs throwing firecrackers at him just for kicks.
... his guilt-ridden sister, Lisa, running away after falsely implying a relationship with the parish priest.
...the suicide of high school friend Patsy, a nerdette loner devoted to restoring an old jeep, who he took to the senior prom, mistaking his friendship for something more.
...chasing wannabe gangbanger, Poocho, onto a rooftop after he beat a woman Mike worked for during an attempted robbery. Trying to get away, Poocho tries to jump to another roof, falls, and is paralyzed from the waist down.
But Mike is one of the lucky few who survives a free fall from that altitude, his terminal velocity slowed by a thick Olympic National Forest canopy of spruce and hemlock over a 15 foot deep snowdrift. However, beyond his physical injuries, the trauma of his fall leaves him in a deep fugue state of dissociative amnesia without memory of his past identity.
He is found by Kaydee Metcaff who was hunting for elk nearby when she heard the crash through the trees. An ex-army sniper, she has sought the solitude of the forest as a refuge from her PTSD. As she nurses his physical injuries he realizes he is presumed dead and must build a new identity instead of trying to recover one he has totally lost. He decides to build his new life as Mike Logan. To avoid any media spotlight as the freak accident survivor, Kaydee suggests he is an old friend she invited on an elk hunt who wandered off a trail in the deep snow, and the fall from an 80 foot cliff caused his amnesia.
When Mike is brought into Kaydee's close circle of friends in the nearby Quinalt Indian Reservation he discovers his love of cooking, assuming it is an instinctive remnant of his past, and creates a series of unique dishes using local wild game including elk, bear, mallard, Dungeness crabs and salmon. He's encouraged to open a restaurant, and he and Kaydee take over an old lodge on the shore of nearby Lake Quinalt and, honoring its previous Quinalt activist owner, Minky Salosa, call it Minky's Wilde Fare.
The Winner of the Best Teacher of the Year award for Washington, wheelchair-bound Luis Nalo, is honored with a weekend at nearby Olympic Lodge. To share in the publicity, Kaydee and Mike offer him dinner at Minky's where, recognizing Mike, he introduces himself as Poocho, the street punk who fell in his jump from the roof. Sadly, he says he just attended the funeral of the woman he beat during the attempted robbery that ended with his lifetime sentence in a wheelchair. She became his mentor and financed his education. Mike can't remember him nor connect with anything he says, and wishes he didn't have to process a bewildering connection to a past from which he is severed.
He orders some exotic vegetables from AyOmo Exotiques a Tacoma farm run by two women, Abayomi and Omorose. He has no clue that his long-lost sister Lisa and her partner Makia had broken away from living on the streets, changed their look, their lives, and taken on African names. Lisa was Abayomi, and in a newspaper review about Minky's she'd examined a picture of chef Mike Logan. Despite his shaved head and goatee, there was something very familiar about him and decided they should visit this hot new restaurant that had become one of their best customers.
"They sound African." Kaydee had said when she heard their names.
"Could be," Mike said.
"And could be their visit might help clear out some of those pieces of the past that are banging around inside your head."
"Hope so."
Raising his day's-end glass of scotch in a hopeful toast, he looked forward to continuing to build the new Mike Logan without interruption from the life of Mike Logano.
Abayomi and Omorose. New names. New faces. And perhaps, new memories.
He is sucked out of the plane and in 127 seconds falls 25,463 feet, every few thousand feet reliving moments in his life as he anticipates ending as a squash of raspberry-jammed organs and splintered bone.
The montage from his past includes:
...ignoring a plea for help from a Navy petty officer who is pushed overboard from an aircraft carrier by another sailor.
...graduating with an associates degree in culinary arts and running a Puerto Rican food truck.
...rescuing a stray dog from being terrorized by street thugs throwing firecrackers at him just for kicks.
... his guilt-ridden sister, Lisa, running away after falsely implying a relationship with the parish priest.
...the suicide of high school friend Patsy, a nerdette loner devoted to restoring an old jeep, who he took to the senior prom, mistaking his friendship for something more.
...chasing wannabe gangbanger, Poocho, onto a rooftop after he beat a woman Mike worked for during an attempted robbery. Trying to get away, Poocho tries to jump to another roof, falls, and is paralyzed from the waist down.
But Mike is one of the lucky few who survives a free fall from that altitude, his terminal velocity slowed by a thick Olympic National Forest canopy of spruce and hemlock over a 15 foot deep snowdrift. However, beyond his physical injuries, the trauma of his fall leaves him in a deep fugue state of dissociative amnesia without memory of his past identity.
He is found by Kaydee Metcaff who was hunting for elk nearby when she heard the crash through the trees. An ex-army sniper, she has sought the solitude of the forest as a refuge from her PTSD. As she nurses his physical injuries he realizes he is presumed dead and must build a new identity instead of trying to recover one he has totally lost. He decides to build his new life as Mike Logan. To avoid any media spotlight as the freak accident survivor, Kaydee suggests he is an old friend she invited on an elk hunt who wandered off a trail in the deep snow, and the fall from an 80 foot cliff caused his amnesia.
When Mike is brought into Kaydee's close circle of friends in the nearby Quinalt Indian Reservation he discovers his love of cooking, assuming it is an instinctive remnant of his past, and creates a series of unique dishes using local wild game including elk, bear, mallard, Dungeness crabs and salmon. He's encouraged to open a restaurant, and he and Kaydee take over an old lodge on the shore of nearby Lake Quinalt and, honoring its previous Quinalt activist owner, Minky Salosa, call it Minky's Wilde Fare.
The Winner of the Best Teacher of the Year award for Washington, wheelchair-bound Luis Nalo, is honored with a weekend at nearby Olympic Lodge. To share in the publicity, Kaydee and Mike offer him dinner at Minky's where, recognizing Mike, he introduces himself as Poocho, the street punk who fell in his jump from the roof. Sadly, he says he just attended the funeral of the woman he beat during the attempted robbery that ended with his lifetime sentence in a wheelchair. She became his mentor and financed his education. Mike can't remember him nor connect with anything he says, and wishes he didn't have to process a bewildering connection to a past from which he is severed.
He orders some exotic vegetables from AyOmo Exotiques a Tacoma farm run by two women, Abayomi and Omorose. He has no clue that his long-lost sister Lisa and her partner Makia had broken away from living on the streets, changed their look, their lives, and taken on African names. Lisa was Abayomi, and in a newspaper review about Minky's she'd examined a picture of chef Mike Logan. Despite his shaved head and goatee, there was something very familiar about him and decided they should visit this hot new restaurant that had become one of their best customers.
"They sound African." Kaydee had said when she heard their names.
"Could be," Mike said.
"And could be their visit might help clear out some of those pieces of the past that are banging around inside your head."
"Hope so."
Raising his day's-end glass of scotch in a hopeful toast, he looked forward to continuing to build the new Mike Logan without interruption from the life of Mike Logano.
Abayomi and Omorose. New names. New faces. And perhaps, new memories.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798823162548 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 12/05/2022 |
| Pages: | 248 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.52(d) |
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