Jefferey J. Reese (Books)

Jefferey J. Reese Books

Jeffery J. Reese draws upon a wide array of life experiences to create the richly developed extremist cultures of Puerto Paz. His upbringing on the outskirts of liberal Madison, farm country adolescence, and studies in conservative rural Indiana shaped his understanding of diverse ideologies. After over two decades as a structural engineer, trained to find and solve problems, Reese applies this keen insight to portraying the complex motivations of his characters. This unique blend of experiences allows his work to explore the extremes of human thought.

Puerto Paz

406 pages
15 hours of reading

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We live in an increasingly polarizing landscape of political extremism. Liberal versus Conservative. Freedom versus order. What if that divide caused the United States to split into two countries and four extremist cultures? Marcus Coleman lives in a world where, decades earlier, exactly that happened. The black high school football and track star and his white best friend run away from their home in one extremist culture, and travel through three other extremist cultures, before finally finding the balanced moderation of Puerto Paz. Like a pair of nomadic Goldilocks, they embark on a journey of self-discovery, entering a strange new world full of drastically differing political ideologies and struggling to find a culture that feels like the right fit. Although raised in a culture that demands strict loyalty, their travels lead them to discover differences between themselves that test the limits of their friendship.