In 2007 I finally came out to family and friends as being gay. After twenty-three years of drug and alcohol addiction, I got sober, picked up a book on Buddhism then promptly bought a plane ticket to India. The Narrow Way is the story of how all that came to be.

Join me and my agent as we travel the road to finding a publisher. Along the way we’ll talk about Buddhism, coming out and the challenges of staying clean and sober (even while moonlighting as a bartender…go figure!).

From a possible version of back-cover hype:

Even at twelve years old, Chris knows he’s gay. He just doesn’t want to believe it. Spurred on by intolerance, ignorance and fear, he takes his first steps into the closet and so begins twenty-three years of drugs, drinking and attempted suicides. It’s only after he wakes up one morning, beaten and still bleeding from a hate crime, that he finally finds the courage to come out and make a change. Renewed and refreshed, he finds sanity and healing in the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism and without looking back, sets off on an inspired pilgrimage to India and Nepal.

The Narrow Way is the harrowing and sometimes beautiful story of a man who lost his mind only to find it again through a strange new religion, in a strange new place, half way across the world.