Taylor, Alexander2020-03-062020-03-062020-01-09http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/988This collection of essays travels a path from working in restaurants, and studying abroad in Florence, to dealing with death and obsessively researching a chilling crime in Kalamazoo—all along the author’s route to becoming a journalist, and finding romance in between. Taylor makes unlikely decisions. His book utilizes unconventional forms, frank imagery, and a dark sense of humor. The question is: how do we figure out where to go, after becoming who we never expected to be?en-USEssaysThesis