Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert Rose Daniel Asa

Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan's lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.Dan and Tony return to the scene of the crash in an effort to make sense of that fateful moment. His wife of sixteen years wanted out.

Dan moves into a single-wide trailer four blocks from the crash. He's certain that if he can locate the woman in whose arms he almost died, he will find the self he lost and make peace with his life choices since. Over the next eight