Death of a Blue Jay

Sigmund Freud would have a field day, what with dreams and Christian symbolism and reality interwoven in Nicholas D’Souza’s THE DEATH OF A BLUE JAY, the tale of Jeremy Martin’s spiritual journey. Many events remain unexplained, like the cause of son Leon’s death. Others can be interpreted readily, thanks to a back-end glossary. Along the way, readers might feel like a lost Alice in Wonderland with quickly switching scenes and characters; it’s balanced by the underlying emphasis on the search for the authentic self.