Writing Resources
Damon Galguts novel In A Strange Room takes place in a number of locations and follows the journey of a young South African man named Damon In the beginning of the novel Damon seems almost unhappy and unsure about life He is traveling by foot in Greece He travels by foot for the majority of the novel and stays on the move because he is fundamentally unhappy with his life While in Greece Damon meets a man around the same age as him from Germany the mans name is Reiner They seem to click right away and have a connection and they end up traveling together The book is divided up into 3 parts the first being titled The Follower It is called the follower because out of the two men it is clear that Damon is the follower as Reiner is the more dominant of the twosome as he ends up making most of their decisions himself and planning everything around his wants and needs They end up planning a trip in the small country of Lesotho where
