Discover the transformative journey of an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer, whose heartbreaking quest for love, friendship, and redemption leads him through the heart of Latin America.
"Imagine Joseph Conrad writing the great Peace Corps novel. White Cloud Free is heartbreaking, vast, and tough. Johnson splashes the colors of Latin America onto these pages."
—Darin Strauss, author of Cheng & Eng
White Cloud Free is a well-structured thriller so convincing of place and characters the
reader stops bothering to sort memory from enhanced memory, fact from fiction. The story has veracity; the narrative pace doesn’t allow you to wonder about how true what had happened because you want to read on to what will happen. It’s all totally believable, but you know you are being told a tale.
—Stephen Foehr, author of BIX: Because I Exist
"An amicable coming-of-age novel, a spiritual exploration of youth and a terrific primer on beekeeping. Highly recommended."
—Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
"White Cloud Free is a haunting novel, with the authenticity and redemption that makes fiction worth reading in the first place. It’s a brutal, beautiful, penetrating story. Peter Michael Johnson is the real deal. Beyond just being a good writer, he's generous to the reader."
—Mark Cirino, author of Name the Baby
"Peter Johnson's novel, White Cloud Free, is a wonder for the reader as it is a semi-autobiographical account of his time in his early twenties as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay... A must-read, it is a winner of the 2021 Seven Hills Review Novel Excerpt Contest."
—Lyla F. Ellzey, Judge, Seven Hills Review Novel Excerpt Contest, 2021
