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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Southern born Bo Grayson enjoys his life as a Colorado Rockies Keystone ski resort employee for he skis, waits tables and parties. His childhood friends have gone on to successful business careers, Levi as a law firm partner, Pen (Penelope) in the high-end home decorating business, and Marty as a wealthy businessman who specializes in selling crops of illegal drugs.(?) But it is Bo who lives in Fantasy-land and will wait tables all his life unless he goes back to school and works at a career, says his school adviser Dr. Kalb. But Bo knows how it feels to be caught in an avalanche of snow, sometimes buried until rescue workers arrive. He senses that there are more avalanches in life than snow. Bo reads prolifically and thinks, especially books like Scott Peck's "A Road Less Traveled" and Rollo May's "Love and Will", but he runs from the avalanche of life that he finds while skiing and working in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Settling in Chicago, earning his Bachelor's degree, Bo works for the Chicago Merc as a trader. Back in the 'real world', he finds himself confronted by government agents who are investigating his childhood friend Marty's finances. Pen and Levi, his other "successful" childhood friends, are in trouble, big trouble. Even Bo's beloved Dr. Kalb has made some very bad investments. In the middle of this mess, Bo meets artist Abby and this time he doesn't run from love. But when she leaves him for Jackson Hole, will Bo follow her to a life where there is meaning in much more than making money?
"Powder Dreams" is a thinking man's book. It is highly readable, well-edited and formatted, but more than that, offers a view into life and how we choose to live every minute. Bo, Dr. Kalb, Marty, Pen, Levi and the other characters in this book are living, breathing and totally believable. When Bo takes Abby skiing and she notes that Bo's way of life is nice and pleasing there rises an interesting comment on whether making money is the be-all and end-all of life. In "Powder Dreams", the reader knows that it is not. This is a book that readers everywhere will want to read and absorb and read again.
