The Sky Below

This novel tells the story of Gabriel Callahan's life. Beginning with his father's abandonment when Gabriel was a child, it traces his search for wholeness through a dysfunctional adolescence, during which he rebelled against his mother by dealing drugs and engaging in sex with men for money. Now an obituary writer for a fading newspaper in post - 9/11 Manhattan, Gabriel is also an artist, creating still lifes from found and stolen objects. His lover, Janos, a wealthy financier, hopes that Gabriel will abandon his marginal life and move in with him, but Gabriel steadfastly refuses, even when a health crisis threatens to undo him. Spiritually broken, he travels to a commune in Mexico, where he reluctantly receives the help of a clairvoyant eight-year-old girl, in the search for clarity.

Paperback, 288 Pages, Orig. Publ. 2009, This Ed. Publ. 2010