CARRY ON DREAMING is the sequel to Ward’s earlier novel, PARASITE…joyous flashbacks amidst a crystal meth nightmare. Both books are in the Beat writer tradition; memoirs of the unknown, portraits of the artist, stories of commonplace melodrama, combined with a spiritual quest for life’s meaning, or meaninglessness. All of which he has threaded together into an epic immigrant’s tale.  

I know Jeff Ward as a writer and a musician, and on both counts I expect the unexpected… Carry On Dreaming is almost as fast-paced as a shot of speed. He not only...