Madi Crum

Jensen muses on what makes the perfect Moscow Mule while haunted by old phantoms, Albuquerque's finest bartender, and the ghost of every endeavor he's ever left unfinished.

Beaten down from an unexpected rejection from college, Jensen is stuck between the hold of his nostalgic past and the loss of his idyllic imagined future. With the aid of his friends, family, and the elusive Taylor Ham sandwich, he finds peace by looking outward to gain perspective on the world's greater problems and inward to remember how he's surmounted far more difficult tragedies before and will do so time and time again.

What happens when a curveball straightens out? Not much, apparently. After one too many White Claws, Jensuah ponders the meaning of college and beyond on the seventh ugliest campus in America.

As time speeds up with each birthday, Jensen considers his memories and dreams at 23 (and 3)--what's changed and what's stayed exactly the same.