Joshua Fragmented

I have long respected Bruce Lewis as a virtuoso Jazz guitarist. A close cousin to Blues, Jazz is dissonant, unstable and like the music he has mastered, the author’s prose follows suit. In the tradition of Thomas Wolfe, Lewis’s words are a cry to the very soil that birthed each character. In lyrical outbursts, Joshua Celeste remembers and is remembered. We are introduced to the characters that make up Joshua’s life from the fields of his boyhood home at Water Maple Farm in Kentucky, with a cattle rancher father and misplaced, glamorous mother to the streets of Budapest, Hungary as a traveling guitarist, a melancholic ex-pat.
Bruce Lewis moved to Budapest on May 4th 1993 and stayed until May 22nd 2012. He played with some of the best European musicians in the world, traveling with his guitar to twelve different countries. His insight into the