Damselfly

Damselfly is a novel of literary fiction. Best friends Percy and Ben find their lives disintegrating in coastal California and make separate moves to their one time university home of Lake Plenty, Wisconsin. Percy's marriage endures an absurd dissolution and Ben seeks the unrequited hand of his school-time sweetheart as a returning Errant Knight with a stolen bankroll. The story is essentially Crossing to Safety in reverse throttle, exposing what becomes of men who are orphaned by the university culture. The prose of Damselfly is poetically naturalistic, and the dialogue is impassioned and cogent. This story is about betrayal and the answers that arrive in the aftermath.