On the Origins of Joy Boy's Chasm ($0.99), by Liam James Leaven, can be downloaded for free from Smashwords, using coupon code JY73J, valid thru March 13 (the end of "Read an eBook Week", which starts next Sunday). The author has set up this free download in honor of March Madness and also in honor of Joy Boy's Chasm making it through the first round of the 2010 ABNA (Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award) selection process.Book Description
The mysterious nature of women, coupled with what seems to be a life slated for nothingness, has Joy Boy reeling. His consequent search for Dude, and all that he must know, begins a zany quest for something, anything, with more meaning and staying power than the 18-word sitcom descriptions he writes for his job at the TV Talon Times.
So begins a hilarious series of events filled with a wildly diverse array of impassioned, lonely and restless searchers, culminating in an explosion of pastoral bliss.
