Who among us has not dreamed of going to the corner store and simply disappearing?
Travers Landeman, a businessman from Ohio, has his own set of troubles. Not to mention his teenage nephew, Matthew, who has been abused by his parish priest. Matthew reaches out to Travers for help, but Travers turns away. With an unhappy life, Travers fakes his death on the Caribbean island of Mabuhay and unwittingly sets off a series of events.
The years pass.
It appears that Travers has gotten away with it. He settles into a new life with a new family. But then Albert McNab is hired by the Atlantis Fidelity Insurance Company to bring Travers back to Ohio and he is hot on Travers' trail.
Chicago bookseller Joe Rogers leads a group of amateur archeologists to Mabuhay. At the dig site, he discovers an ancient treasure, a jeweled mask dating to the Arawak period. Will Joe, who has his own axe to grind with Atlantis Fidelity Insurance, leave the sidelines and get back in the game?
Esmerelda McNab, United Nations Ambassador of its newest member nation, the Commonwealth of Mabuhay, has her own set of troubles Columbia University protesters who denounce her part in the sale of the mask that Joe Rogers discovered as "cultural genocide."
Can love, redemption, and peace be found on Mabuhay?
Or are somebody else's troubles just that?
Sprache
ISBN-13
978-1-64390-117-6 (9781643901176)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
When Chicago's largest neighborhood, Austin-once a municipality in its own right-resegregated from 100% Caucasian to 90+% African-American in the years 1970-71, as 120,000 Austinites fled overnight, Joe English was one of a handful of residents who cast down their buckets with their new neighbors. As a minority in a majority minority neighborhood, English has, after forty-nine years, gained a unique perspective on the state of urban America. He maintains a residence in Austin but now spends much of his time in the Caribbean. He has two children, now in their fifties, who were raised in Austin. English has a B.A. cum laude from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and an M.A. from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. His writings have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Reader, and Co-Existence, the literary journal which featured the works of Henry Miller.
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