The Phoenix of New Bohemia is a coming of age science fiction story about a young traveller looking back on his adventures across America through a series of long-lost journal entries. With a little help from his therapist and a Doctor who engineered the world's first cyber-kinetic brain called E.P.I.P.H.A.N.Y. Our loving narrator must stay out of trouble long enough to unlock the mysteries of his own troubled psyche. chalk-full of drug-fueled characters and bad advice! Take a trip on The Phoenix of New Bohemia across the highways of America! Romance is not dead...it's just dreaming.

The novel starts with poetry and ends with poetry. The deep themes and motifs expressed in this novel are reminiscent in much of Michael Barone's work. Birds, Reincarnation, religious redemption, abuse and the eventual wisdom gained from excess...the inevitable conclusion to sin...as well as Romance which is the crux of this story. The novel is really about one man's attempt at finding his own outlet of order amongst the chaos of modern America. if you like novels in the same vein as Jack Kerouac or William Burroughs, you might like Michael Barone's The Phoenix of New Bohemia. There are many deep themes explored about God, religion and war. Pop-culture also plays a major role in the influence and development of the characters. Fan's of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 will love reading this book!

Michael Barone was born in the United States of America on November 30th, 1990. He graduated from The University of Central Michigan with a degree in journalism and has had a bright career freelancing for newspapers, festivals and occasionally T.V. and film all around the country. Michael first started writing notes for The Phoenix of New Bohemia in 2016, although it wasn't officially published until the winter of 2022. Michael resides in the state of Michigan where he lives and takes his pit-bull Jax for walks. The Phoenix of New Bohemia is his second novel.