This newly revised edition of the five-star reviewed The Consequence of Stars includes a new introduction and two new essays from award-winning author David W. Berner.


The Consequence of Stars is a memoir-in-essays--a mosaic of the experience of searching for one's place in the world. Writer David W. Berner recalls a solo and revealing cross-country train ride, a spiritual awakening in the Navajo Nation, performs music with Jack Kerouac groupies at the writer's former Florida home, and hunts for the ghost of Hemingway in the attic of the famous writer's birthplace home. He revisits his parent's lifelong love affair with their hometown and one another despite life-threatening odds and sets out to build a Thoreau-like writer's shed, hoping to discover an artistic space and an artist's home. In the book's newest essays, he explores how a new life resurrects the spirit, and how creative longing produces a spiritual awakening.


Five-Star Review: "Some people are natural born storytellers, and David W. Berner certainly falls into that category, The Consequence of Stars is an insightful and entertaining look at finding your identity in a world where it is easy to get lost trying to find your way home." --IndiesToday.com


"Powerful and rich, a book I had to frequently pause reading in order to allow his words to sink in so my being could absorb them." -Amazon Reader Review


"Berner tells each story with such stunning and packed detail that it kept this reader in awe." -Goodreads Review


"Berner gives us both travelogue and memoir in living, breathing depth and color. Outstanding!" --D.S. White, Editor-in-Chief, Longshot Island
"Reflective, engaging." -Nancy Chadwick, author of Under the Birch Tree


"A writer with an enormous sense of humanity." -Grady Harp, San Francisco Review of Books


"Berner has a no-holds-barred writing style. Raw, honest, confessional. He's a master storyteller." -Geralyn Hesslau Magrady, author of Lines


"Berner's work always captures the essence of what it is to be human." -Larry Richert, KDKA Radio