I Went to Mexico City to Bring Flowers to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and All I Got Was This Lousy Book on Magical Realism: Seattle Letters (Nine Days of Macondo 1)

After a chance encounter with a literary agent, a Seattle flower deliverer takes off to Mexico City in the late summer of 2012 to find the father of Magical Realism himself, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. There's something he needs to return to the famed author. A chunk of oil recovered from the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. From an area named "Macondo", after the village in Marquez's masterpiece of Magical Realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude.

The Macondo oil, the deliveryman discovers, can not only bend reality like a bow when "prepared" a certain way but is slowly addicting. The only way to restore order is to search out the great writer and return the "Macondo" to its rightful home. Come tag along on this hilarious and heartfelt journey that reaches the outskirts of the literary world, walks the thin line between "magical" and "reality" and explores the streets and historical sites of Mexico city in pure gonzo fashion.

This first volume, Seattle Letters, consists of six letters to various literary figures which detail the lead-up to the Mexico City trip.