The Wire Donkey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798231941438)

No gf, no car, his job stacking produce in question, twenty-year-old Ocean Gebthart watches his good works project--Oregon Organ Donors League--blow up. He must leave town. And does with a wise, older woman. By turns sacred and secular, Ocean journeys to discover his calling in life, riding his wire donkey across a Rose City known for beer, bikes and books.

Some advance praise for The Wire Donkey

"With The Wire Donkey, Charlie Dickinson offers a kaleidoscopic tour of the Pacific Northwest--from hipster Eugene to alternative lifestyle Portland--in a bildungsroman with an edge."
--J. Sydney Jones, author of the Viennese Mystery series, including Requiem in Vienna and The Empty Mirror

"The Wire Donkey captures the essense of Generation Y."
--Antonio Graceffo, author of The Monk from Brooklyn

"Dickinson shows the honesty and vibrancy of youth with a voice all his own. The Wire Donkeyis about the search for meaning, and in the end it finds it.
--Edgar Nicaud, author of Tremble + Ennui