Product Description
PLACE... a literary novel of suspense, romance, family and personal crisis, with shadings of physics and metaphysics.
PLACE is the story of a man and the woman he loves seeking firm footing for their lives in a post-9/11 American landscape where “sense of place” is fractured and uncertain. Hugh Ogden, late 40s, is a computer systems theorist specializing in Artificial Life. Abigail Sipes, a high-powered corporate consultant with celebrity cachet, is struggling to carry on with her life in the wake of profound family tragedy.
Their central problem is Abigail’s unique affliction: somewhere in the blurred space between pure metaphor and empirical reality, she physically disappears. Is it because of the collective force of other people's myopia, or is it somehow linked to her deep personal loss?
Complicating and enriching their search for understanding is the unexpected entrance of a young boy, Lyn Blake, whom society has discarded and planted on their doorstep. As their three-way bond deepens, the truth seems more within reach, but it takes one final accelerating crisis to discover, and confront, what it really is.
"PLACE, set in a post 9/11 America, is a thoughtful exploration of family connections both in the here and now, as well as across the veil of time and space. Very well written with a unique, matter-of-fact prose, this intriguing story may leave the reader rethinking their understanding of what can and cannot possibly happen. The back cover blurb...A wounded life in a fractured land, she keeps disappearing... does not begin to touch on the depth and complexity of this story. Definitely worth the read." - Donna Aviles, author, Beyond the Orphan Train
PLACE is the story of a man and the woman he loves seeking firm footing for their lives in a post-9/11 American landscape where “sense of place” is fractured and uncertain. Hugh Ogden, late 40s, is a computer systems theorist specializing in Artificial Life. Abigail Sipes, a high-powered corporate consultant with celebrity cachet, is struggling to carry on with her life in the wake of profound family tragedy.
Their central problem is Abigail’s unique affliction: somewhere in the blurred space between pure metaphor and empirical reality, she physically disappears. Is it because of the collective force of other people's myopia, or is it somehow linked to her deep personal loss?
Complicating and enriching their search for understanding is the unexpected entrance of a young boy, Lyn Blake, whom society has discarded and planted on their doorstep. As their three-way bond deepens, the truth seems more within reach, but it takes one final accelerating crisis to discover, and confront, what it really is.
"PLACE, set in a post 9/11 America, is a thoughtful exploration of family connections both in the here and now, as well as across the veil of time and space. Very well written with a unique, matter-of-fact prose, this intriguing story may leave the reader rethinking their understanding of what can and cannot possibly happen. The back cover blurb...A wounded life in a fractured land, she keeps disappearing... does not begin to touch on the depth and complexity of this story. Definitely worth the read." - Donna Aviles, author, Beyond the Orphan Train
