Destiny and Other Follies
by Gregory Venters
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Pub Date 17 Feb 2026 | Archive Date 29 Apr 2026
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Description
Aging cancer survivor and consultant Calder Brandt has staked everything on making partner. But a bullying boss sees him as a threat, while the firm’s feckless Leadership looks the other way. When his partner bid fails, Calder spirals into desperation and despair.
How will he tell his wife?
Younger and Bosnian, Hana feels adrift in an overwhelming America. Terrified by her husband’s failing health and the prospect of widowhood, she takes a retail bank job and an interest in her one friend’s husband.
Meanwhile, Calder’s client work unravels; hints at internal sabotage mount. As the ruthlessness of colleagues emerges, so do the primal forces that drive him. His battle to salvage both dignity and career deteriorates into a thirst for vengeance, leading to unexpected revelations about his past, his world, and himself.
Destiny and Other Follies is a darkly comic, gritty yet humane portrait of misdirected lives in our corporatized era.
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Advance Praise
"In the end, I found Destiny and Other Follies serious, searching, and quietly affecting. It asks for patience, and it is not the kind of literary fiction that hurries to charm you, but I think that resistance is part of its character. I would recommend it most to readers who like reflective, psychologically detailed novels, especially literary fiction that cares as much about inner erosion as outward plot, and to anyone interested in books about marriage, illness, work, and the humiliations of modern professional life. Readers willing to sit with discomfort, irony, and long emotional echoes will find a lot here." - Literary Titan
"Lovers of literary novels that blend gritty realism with suspense and a splash of drama will find Destiny and Other Follies by Gregory Venters an enthralling read. " - Reader's Favorite
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| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798891329959 |
| PRICE | $18.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 362 |
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