Left To Fry by Christopher Fryer
Left To Fry
by Christopher Fryer
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My Ratings 4.6/5
Synopsis
In the first 20 pages, Christopher Fryer will be fired, go broke, break up with his girlfriend, and become homeless. What happens next is anybody’s guess.
At its core, Left To Fry is a love story. Raw, real, and honest.
But it is also about workplace romance, coffee shops, music, mayhem, confusion, elation, the pursuit of happiness, finding a purpose, teaching, learning, an internship with a newspaper, family, and travel. It is about strangers who become friends, flirtations that become relationships, relationships and how they change you forever. It is about movies and entertainment and the pleasures of being alive. It is about the Peace Corps and dentistry and grown-up stuff like insurance, taxes, and affording rent. It’s about mishaps and mistakes and accidents and tragedy. Vulnerability, selfishness, lies, and consequences. It is a love letter to Sacramento, to San Francisco, to the California coastline and its snowy mountain towns. It is a review of the human condition, of being twenty-something with no clue what to do next, of being open to anything and prepared for nothing, of living life without an instructional manual. It is about studying people, studying yourself, and studying abroad. It is about patterns, cycles, and lessons learned along the way.
But at its core, Left To Fry is a love story. Witness true love form in real-time, watch it grow, watch it change, watch it stumble and catch itself, watch it adapt, watch it face challenges and boldly accept those challenges. Will love prevail? Will time and distance interfere? Will it last?
Left To Fry is a decade-long record of a life, scratches and all. Written with the feel of a Bret Easton Ellis novel combined with the poignant nothingness of a Seinfeld episode. Left To Fry is as close as you’ll ever get to stepping into someone else’s shoes. A story that we can all see a little bit of ourselves in.
My Thoughts
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
One thing you can count on in life is change. Even during times when you feel mentally, emotionally, or physically “stuck” in a situation, change is happening. Life is full of ups and downs, with a good deal of flat terrain in between. The highs come when everything is going wonderfully and success comes easily. Left To Fry by Christopher Fryer is a beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid memoir of the author Christopher Fryer himself flushed with the ups and downs of his life . . . This book belongs on the shelf along with all the other literary masterpieces. Christopher’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.
The time I picked up Left to Fry I knew it would eventually drift my way and I am thankful it has. Christopher's story, like so many others, is one of identity, loss, and of his profound sense of being in love. Through eloquence and a seemingly poetic choice of words, we ride with him on a bumpy train of love, loss, self exploration, romance, relationships and joy.
I read this book weeks ago. It still hymns in my mind. The way the author has written this memoir is so impressive and touching. It is a must read book and It is worth it. I loved it thoroughly.
This is a beautifully ragged, lovable, fun and utterly unforgettable memoir.
Highly Recommended!
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