Truth or Consequences

"At sixty, Daniel Asa Rose was a successful Massachusetts novelist, memoirist, and columnist for Esquire, GQ, Washington Post Book World and elsewhere, when, out of the blue (but not really), his wife filed for divorce. Before he slips completely into the cocktail of depression, doubt, self-loathing and anger that he mixes for himself, his lifelong friend Tony calls with a proposition: a trip back to the place where, forty years before, their hippy college kid road trip had come to a crashing halt where they were T-boned at an intersection in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Dan should have died in the crash. Instead, due to the miracle of not wearing a seatbelt, he was thrown thirty feet, blacked out, and woke up cradled in the arms of the blonde angel who hit them, trying to remember the blackout revelation behind the words "We are all...""--