A falcon without a mate lectures a lonely man. A gull prompts a mute teenager to open up in therapy. A couple who divorced twenty-five years ago find themselves alone together in a small plane, 8,000 feet above Niagara Falls. Ken Kaye, a family psychologist, earned the MFA degree in Fiction from Bennington College. His fiction has appeared in Lit Pot and Glimmer Train Stories. He has lived in Evanston, Illinois since 1958.
A falcon without a mate lectures a lonely man. A gull prompts a mute teenager to open up in therapy. A couple who divorced twenty-five years ago find ...
On Sept. 12, 2002, the New York papers reported a murder-suicide in a Times Square office. A former FBI agent, fifty-six years old, Director of Security for Blue Cross of New York, shot a young woman and another man, then took his own life. Both the killer and the young woman had been in the World Trade Center a year and a day earlier. There was no information about their relationship, if any, or his motive, if any. This novel imagines those characters and the events that changed their lives.
On Sept. 12, 2002, the New York papers reported a murder-suicide in a Times Square office. A former FBI agent, fifty-six years old, Director of Securi...
Paul Best is the youngest son in a third-generation Chicago family business empire. Approaching 30, depressed by a breakup, failing in his ambitions as an artist and struggling to stay sober, he agrees to try working with his father and brother in the family's group of real estate and finance businesses, whose secrets lead him to even more disappointments, and a path to maturity through new roles as detective, rebel, and lover.
Paul Best is the youngest son in a third-generation Chicago family business empire. Approaching 30, depressed by a breakup, failing in his ambitions a...