Thirty-somethings with the novel Something Great
Thirty-somethings, plus a ninety year-old man, come together to try and rescue a young woman from their group.
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Five thirty-somethings, plus a ninety-one year old man, face challenging and linked turning points in their lives. The cast includes a female environmental activist and her down to Earth roommate, an idealistic but disillusioned ad-man, his rationalistic, law student housemate, and an African-American poet seeking new understanding between big city gritty and his mostly white university. They are all linked to the old man of comically bizarre memories who has just invented a two-way peace pipe of specially blended herbs to be smoked together by adversaries to discover their common humanity in our time of furious divisions.
Romance flourishes between the two sets of roommates, but all are put to the test when the activist is twice kidnapped by a sadistic terrorist, who himself is a casualty of our age of rage. Yet it turns out he’s a complex though blighted individual, which leads to a resolution surprising to all.
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In Praise of Something Great
A well-constructed absorbing novel. A fearless environmental activist battles with a terrorist out to kill her.
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