DRAFT
This blog holds installments for a proposed novel. There is nothing here that is final, not even the order of things (use navigation menu to the right as an aid).
By way of description: The novel is currently a kind of experiment in life-writing (a term which includes all kinds of texts . . .that make up a narrative biography) and drama (acts, scenes, dialogues).
By way of summary.
Johnnie Passnstyle will turn thirty and inherit a large estate from parents who ignored her. With this bequest combined with earned and unearned assets, she faces the next challenge of her life, how to avoid disclosing an unforgivable sin and at the same time atone for it. A handsome detective comes calling at her remote Nevada retreat, and slowly a murder mystery unravels as our heroine shows equanimity and a maturity born ironically of familial love and the difficult choices one has to make for the sake of it. She has the talent, character, and means to avoid prosecution. But in doing so, she must deny herself close friends and what she has never had but knows is beyond the expanses of her arrested development and self-imposed cloister. Not so much a romance as a story where contingent details are not revealed, only the evasions and essentials are . . . promising reprieve and forgiveness. Will she make it?
