Hobo Sapien Wayne Iverson Visits Ken Sanders Rare Books

            Ken Sanders Rare Books is pleased to announce a reading and book signing with Wayne Iverson, author of Hobo Sapien: Freight Train Hopping Tao and Zen, on Saturday, April 16th at 7:00 p.m. at our downtown bookstore (268 South 200 East). Copies of Hobo Sapien ($12.95 paperback) will be available for purchase and signing at the event. This event is free and open to the public.
            Garrison Keillor meets Jack Kerouac meets Mahatma Gandhi in this wry, road-wise scripture. HOBO SAPIEN is a series of freight train parables born out of the author’s 12-plus years riding freight trains, combined with lessons learned in his 7-year stint as a monk, plus the added bonus of fascinating railroad history. Non-fiction readers buy books to learn something, for reference, or to be entertained. HOBO SAPIEN fills all three bills. Readers will get a unique immersion into the underground world of the hobo. The spiritual takes are written with a subtle humor that helps the medicine go down. It is not your parent’s self-help book. Armchair adventurers, rail fans, spiritual seekers, and academia nuts will all gather intriguing information from this missive. It is vastly different from other hobo books because of its unparalleled combination of adventure, rail history, humor and spirituality. The author’s background is also unique and varied. Not many hobos have gone from Yale to rail or hunk to monk.
            An All-American boy from Minnesota, Wayne Iverson attended Yale University. An identity crisis led to three years of roaming. He transferred colleges and hopped freight trains. He became a city planner in western ski areas, then a monk for seven years. Married in Colorado, he and his wife moved to Oklahoma to assist her parents. That dharma done, once again the mountains beckon.