Song for the Dead
A young man and his mother grapple with the disappearance and possible death of his older brother who may have jumped off a bridge on the Jersey shore. I AM NOT GONE is what the suicide note on Mason’s pillow says. His seventeen-year-old brother, Declan, finds it just before police arrive to search Mason’s bedroom for clues to his disappearance: several local business CCTV cameras in the New Jersey shore beach town have recorded a video of a young man fitting Mason’s description jumping from a bridge. But was it Mason? Police divers haven’t found a body. As Declan and [...]
The Cartographer of Sands
Traveling across the landscapes of California, two brothers—a recent parolee and a Berkeley professor—go in search of their teenage sister who has vanished, looking for the reasons why she left home. High in the hills of Berkeley, California, a father summons his two sons, Leonardo, a biology professor, and Gabriel, a recent parolee, and tasks them with locating their seventeen-year-old sister, Lenore, who has vanished, leaving a two-word note that simply reads: I’m okay. The meeting is scored by furious rehearsing from the downstairs conservatory. Peoria, the family matriarch, a world-class pianist with a tenuous grip on reality, is preparing for an [...]
Milo’s Reckoning
When Milo Rossi, a graduate student in Italian at New York University, is awakened one morning by a Westchester county policeman and told that his mentor apparently has hanged himself, he instinctively distrusts the coroner’s verdict. After all, he’d just the night before spent the evening in Lenny D’Ambrosio’s company, discussing literature in translation and the complicated life and death of Primo Levi and had not detected a trace of melancholy. Searching for clues that will explain Lenny’s demise brings Milo in contact with an acquaintance of his brother Carlo, who died in a car accident four years earlier. The [...]
The Adjudicator
Award-winning author Susan Daitch's new novel, The Adjudicator, is a visionary cyberpunk thriller that explores the boundaries of consciousness and individual autonomy within an authoritarian state which controls the genetics of its citizens. Kirkus Reviews Foreword Reviews Interview with Paul Semel In a near future where the surveillance state legislates the genetic code of its citizens, Zedi Loew is an anomaly. She has mirror-touch synaesthesia and experiences the emotions and sensations of anyone she encounters. It’s something she must keep secret, because in a world of [...]
The Interpreter
THE INTERPRETERPulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler’s fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians. The Interpreter is based on the true story of a Vietnamese translator who is wounded—not physically—by a love of country too pure for the contaminated choices that confront him. Dragged by an inner search, he has wandered among the neat categories of allegiance imposed by Vietnam’s lifetime of warfare and foreign occupation.But he fits into none of the [...]
