Book excerpt: Roaming the Wastelands is a story of post-American America, the Wastelands, told through the eyes of a spontaneous drifter named Alex Lavoie. Alex and his friends celebrate life and offer no apologies for being who and what they are. They wander across the landscape demanding freedom, meaning, identity, the right to self-definition, and to self-determination in a land of growing PC conformity, that has forgotten what these things mean.