Wondermental

Author: Nico Vassilakis

Publisher: Pulley Press (2024)

Wondermental is an amalgamation of musings on the changing landscape—a collection of the ways time passes and people adapt (or don't) in response to a contrary modern world. Vassilakis chronicles the ten-year aftermath of picking up and moving from New York City to Greenville, Illinois, an unfolding that veered between bewildered urban dweller and a contender for farm life. 

Wondermental entails living through the early rigors of Covid and obsessing over the poison issuing from political theater in the media—and describes it through fragmenting thoughts, mournfulness, and a hunger for something more.