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“For years he had trekked over the globe, passing everywhere under a new identity, as if at the demarcation lines on maps that signaled the boundaries of towns or provinces or countries he shed one skin and donned another. He had tried on entire pasts, entire histories, wearing them as loosely as borrowed shirts.”
Aaron Lugner is a chameleon. A skillful con-artist hidden in
plain sight, he creates camouflage by wearing his attractiveness like a kind of
cloak and blends within the visions those around him desire, preying upon their
vulnerabilities. He is despicable, yet why then, like the women he romances, do
we like him?
When reminders from his past return Aaron to the US, he
meets Myriam, a beautiful Amerasian, one of the “dust of life” orphaned by the
Vietnam War. Desiring to change and convinced he is in love, Aaron vows never
to lie to her. Away from Myriam, his lies begin to take on lives of their own.
With her, his split selves threaten to collide.
A quirky, original novel that is dialogue rich and fast-paced. The novel takes readers under Seattle's streets, into the past of Vietnam, and within the reaches of the heart. You will exit questioning the nature of lies and the nature of love.
Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, 342 pages. fluidstone Press
Read the first three chapters for free here.
