Someone Else's Joy, An Existential Love Story By John Frazier

Jonathan Frazier Kilgore is a happy young newlywed living his own vision of an ideal life when he is killed in a car accident and is simultaneously reincarnated far from his home with the memories of his former life intact.

Keeping his identity and reincarnation a secret from everyone, including his new parents, this recycled bundle of someone else's joy begins to use the guile, charm and knowledge of a grown man in a child's body to his own (often questionable) ends. And while continually haunted by his losses, his unreconcilable dreams and the ghosts and memories of his past, the reborn Kevin slowly realizes his own unique potential.

From death to birth to the age he was when first he died, this often hilarious, yet deeply poignant first-person narrative recounts Johnny Kilgore's physical and emotional transformation into Kevin Hopper and portrays his twenty-five year journey to restore the life and love that Fate has taken from him.

Not quite based on a true story, but based upon the truth of its emotion, this novel is a poetic metaphor expressing the feelings of helplessness, loneliness and isolation that so often follow a relationship that ends without closure. And while often tongue-in-cheek, deeply personal, and sometimes darkly humorous; it is an allegory of the struggle for self identification, self evaluation and the existential journey towards self discovery in the aftermath of losing what might have been.

You will laugh and you may cry, but you may also finish this novel with questions you have never thought to ask.