... [ a lyrical marriage of Faulkner and McCarthy, with Melville's Hawthorne for good measure; -rob ]

... [ and then, there's the explicitness of Allison (Bastard) and Chatwin (travelogue). -roberta ]

... [ Oк, a little more than a 3-way but who's counting? -rob ].

"A man falls to pieces after a son's suicide, his own divorcе, and left to his devices embarks on time-travel, shape-shift, nearly every type of drug, and reminisce to heal. Which he does, bringing us along for all the pain, but oh the fun too."

An experimental love story of cross-genre format in word-loving shapes and sizes for all. An eco-friendly romp through strange-climate's time and place with an open-door's-policy coterie of characters! FUN! 

A grief-wrought creature comes to terms with the suicide of his only child and a subsequent marital demise. He tries any and nearly every aid possible to buoy his sanity: drugs, sex, talk therapy and family gossip; travel near and far (real+imagined?), church and family traditions; other occupations and more schooling; literary therapy: writing to vent and better understand the world he wonders, wanders should he live in--

Recalling his own childhood, the man settles on those formative years with the lesbian/gf Berry--what nearly ended with a pregnancy unresolved. A child born and given away.

MEANWHILE, he happens upon an inheritance, a trunk containing a long-dead family member's unpublished travelogue: centering largely on that man's own secrets, we explore the dead relation's escapades in the former Constantinople, a continent-straddling city of many names and conflicting histories....IF "1" place can be so many, perhaps there's hope for me, our Main Man reasons in confession.

WHOEVER SAID (or thought) grief was to be so kind

#eco #environ #purlieus #climate #travel #ageless #timeless #love #scifi #fun #genreless #withoutboundary #limitsbegone #whoosh

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