One wrong train. Four days in Romania. A life he can no longer pretend to live.
A married American teacher takes a solo weekend trip to Romania, seeking a brief escape from his carefully constructed expat life in Stockholm. When he boards the wrong train and ends up stranded in a forgotten village in the Carpathian foothills, a chance encounter sets off a chain of events that will challenge everything he’s spent decades avoiding.
Over four days of unexpected detours, through medieval castles, mountain trails, and late-night conversations, he begins to confront the truth he’s been hiding from himself since adolescence. In the raw, unpolished landscape of rural Romania, far from the life he’s built and the person everyone expects him to be, he discovers that some revelations can’t be ignored, no matter how much they threaten to upend everything.
Augustin Station is an intimate portrait of late-in-life awakening, exploring the cost of living inauthentically and the courage it takes to finally be honest with yourself and everyone else. A novel about desire, identity, and the moment you realize you can’t go back to who you were.
Justin Greak 