The Consequence of Stars is not a traditional memoir. Its center is not about dysfunction or overwhelming grief, but rather the story of searching. It is a memoir-in-essays about the longing for home, in all its meanings, an examination of a modern life that has forever been attempting to find balance and its place in the world.In The Consequence of Stars, the author revisits his parents' lifelong love affair with their hometown and one another despite life-threatening odds. He recalls a solo and revealing cross-country train ride and a spiritual awakening in the Navajo Nation, journeys representing his search. He plays guitar with Jack Kerouac groupies at the writer's former Florida home, hunts for the ghost of Hemingway in the attic of his birthplace home, and sets out to build a Thoreau-like writer's shed where he hopes to discover an artistic space, an artist's home.