This novel also reads like an insider’s account of hiking the Appalachian Trail. Stumbling Thru presents a mosaic of characters weaving in and out of each other’s lives and hiking adventures. You’ll have to find out for yourself how “Peg Master” becomes “Skunkers”, whether “Again” manages to complete the trail after countless attempts. There is also “STD”, “Bawdy”, “Poohbah”, “Flutterby”, and “Coyote” among many others. On trail everybody gets a nickname, and how you area assigned one is not random at all – Walter’s ennui earns him the alias “Bartleby”, after Bartleby the scrivener. Characters that crisscross his path early on may or may not turn out to be major players, but one cannot imagine the novel without them. We walk with Walter, our reluctant hiker who only knows that he's standing before 2,000+ miles of trail at the start of his uncertain journey. In Stumbling Thru, the Appalachian Trail is alive. The Appalachian Trail as a metaphor for life.
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