The Last Stage of Grief: A Novel

Ben Wardell is a sheltered, eighteen-year-old high school graduate and recent college drop-outa tortured soul, old for his age, and like thousands of other young adults across America: a victim of this era. Hating his job, feeling bored, outside himself and out of touch with a seemingly indifferent world, he crosses over into another worlda world he sees as if for the first time through the eyes of a goddess; a beautiful, dark and mysterious young woman named Eve. Some deep truths begins to resonate inside Benabout his life, about his past, and about his futureas he explores the hard-edge, pseudo-romantic world of dance clubs, after hours parties and drugshe falls in love; possessed by and obsessed with Cora, a beautiful, promiscuous and elusive aspiring musician with twenty-four years of wisdom and secrets to share with him.