The Napkin Approach

About the Book

Come journey with shen brevard-from winter of '98 to summer of '05.

Saunter and weave through significant musings inspired by: east Asia's techno mega-city: Tokyo, the Atlantic seaboard's (brash with class) NYC-specifically-Brooklyn-n-Queens, northern Pacific's famed sophisticated 'City by the Bay' (San Francisco) and the Golden State's venerable yet sprawling hiptropolis: Los Angeles.

From a native Californian's wanderlust to a fellow American's lament and disgust over their nation's chaotic reflection of magnificence mixed with devastating self-inflicted conflict. Same person. Different angles. Grounded in an ever shifting upward perspective.

Political? Not really. Poignant? Yes. More importantly, this 'writer-to-be' invites you to look within-in order-to understand the world without. One-part neutral. Two-parts fresh-n-fun. Half part melancholy. Half part Cosmopolitan.

Heed the call. Embark upon a most glorious, verbally artistic, Americana experience.

About the Author

Long time novelist, academician, avid reader, jazz head, world traveler, student pilot, and former flight attendant this litany of experience has proven to be the perfect literary incubator for San Francisco native, shen brevard.