Adam Bjelland
AUTHOR
ACTOR
SINGER/SONGWRITER
songs for the visitor upon leaving
“The music echoes my ache, knowing there’s nothing left for me south but the daily press. It foretells the longing sure to come, leaving someplace never lived, losing something never owned, missing someone never loved, yet I knew at once was magnificent.”
SONGS FOR THE VISITOR UPON LEAVING
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What People Are Saying
“Always sincere and never self-serving, Bjelland trusts the reader the way real readers want to be trusted. There’s an honesty to his writing that presents itself on each page, where imagination wins over ego. Songs for the Visitor Upon Leaving is an eclectic playlist of quick-hitting stories that takes turns being touching, eccentric, and absurd.”
— Rick Hoffman
(Author of The Devils that Haunt Us and Seven-Sided S.O.B.)
“Bjelland shows a sensitivity to the things and beings most people pay no attention to at all. He conjures existential anxieties, obsessions, mysteries, and emotions that yield so much. It’s really good, one-of-a-kind, often moving stuff.”
— Anthony DiFranco
(Author of Streets of Paradise and The Girl in the Trunk)
“The wonderfully offbeat and unflinchingly dark and funny tales in Songs for the Visitor Upon Leaving are a thrill ride that run the gamut from the absurdly profound to the amusingly sentimental. Told in punchy, lean, and wildly inventive prose, Bjelland’s literary “mixtape” is a great traveling companion for the long ride home.”
— Juan Lasso
(Long Island Herald)
