New Mexico state senator Bill O’Neill joined Lynn Moorer to discuss his semi-autobiographical novel, Panoramic Diaries, which features peripatetic protagonist Chapman Murphy, a son of privilege from Iowa who takes a break from his job as an executive director of a halfway house in New Mexico for a host of colorful and challenged parolees to ride the rails on freight cars and mostly live in freight yards, old hotels, and hobo camps. As discerning and altruistic Chapman seeks to find answers to his most important life questions while dealing with his parents’ expectations, he forms an alliance with another late bloomer and defiant spirit, Kit Jones, who joins him in his adventures.
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