Truth or Consequences

Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert

Daniel Asa Rose

• Publisher: High Road Books
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780826364784
• eBook ISBN: 9780826364791
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan’s lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Dan and Tony return to the scene of the crash in an effort to make sense of that fateful moment. He’s certain that if he can locate the woman in whose arms he almost died, he will find the self he lost and make peace with his life choices since. Dan moves into a single-wide trailer four blocks from the crash. Over the next eight months, inexplicable encounters make him fall in love with the New Mexico desert and the wiggy place that embraces him.

Truth or Consequences is a moving true story of hope and redemption. It is a funny, deeply felt rumination on aging, misadventure, and the serendipity of second chances.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface • Summer 1970: To Go
• Part I. Winter 2010: Forty Years Later
• Part II. Two Minutes Later
• Part III. Two Months Later
• Epilogue • Two Years Later: Cattail Pollen