Picking up where Jonathan Shaw's critically-acclaimed Scab Vendor:
Confessions of a Tattoo Artist left off, Homeward Bound resumes the
story of Cigano, the tattoo man. Cigano continues his full-body tattoo
work on a young acolyte, Jaco, who eagerly soaks up his tales. Homeward
Bound continues charting the amazing course of a life measured in
extremes and all the singular people, exotic places, and outrageous
events that shaped it into a survivor's tale of epic proportions. In its
pages, Shaw takes the reader deeper than ever before, not only into the
bizarre recesses of his extraordinary mind and incredible adventures,
but also into the strange and magical process of memoir writing itself.
Homeward Bound is proof positive that truth is indeed stranger than
fiction. As Shaw's old friend and literary mentor Charles Bukowski once
told him, most of this book would have to be lived before it could be
written. In that sense, Homeward Bound is much more than a compelling,
page-turning chronicle of a popular working-class hero's creative
evolution. It is a multicolored, cinematic modern-day Odyssey, written
in blood, ink and tears - a kaleidoscopic, visionary roadmap to the
journey of the human soul.