Jared Siler: Under the Current at Changing Hands Bookstore – Phoenix, AZ

Author and school psychologist Jared Siler presents his independently published debut novel, Under the Current.

ABOUT THE BOOK

He has everything—except peace. Tristen’s brilliance, wealth, and Silicon Valley prestige mask the truth he’s never faced: the silent, unhealed wounds left by his father’s absence. When his carefully constructed life begins to crumble, he flees to California’s wild, unyielding coast. There, the ocean’s fierce and unpredictable power becomes both mirror and adversary, forcing him to confront the fractures in his identity and the pain he’s buried for decades. As career, relationships, and self-beliefs collapse, Tristen stands at a breaking point-clinging to control will destroy him, but surrendering to vulnerability might just save him.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jared Siler is a fiction writer and licensed school psychologist whose work explores self-discovery, loss, trauma, and healing. Encouraged by his own experiences in therapy as a teenager, Jared keeps journals of moments he calls “greenlights”—brief flashes of insight that illuminate the path forward. Jared lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Molly, and their dog, Leo. When he’s not writing, he enjoys travel, journaling, meditation, movies, sports, and the outdoors, finding connection through both storytelling and lived experience.