Frank Wolak
ASIN: B00GMO2BWI
Publisher: Rose Thorn Publishers
Pages: 226
In this first and most extraordinary novel, a stern voice comes to a lost soul adrift in a Limbo-like afterlife, commanding him to "BEGIN". He must obey by telling the story of his life as if he is still alive and experiencing it. With sardonic humor, and deep, tender pathos, he adroitly weaves vivid real incidents with threads of the hints of the supernatural, into the moving quilt of his family's doomed bloodline.Set in the northeastern quadrant of the USA at the turn of the millennium, this novel of illicit love, betrayal, and diabolical plots by three "Soul Reapers" who appear only to those characters close to death, and conspire with one of the narrator's doctor and her great aunt, a powerful voodoo priestess, to murder the narrator and the older sister he adores, is powerfully written, and masterfully encompasses techniques of a memoir, historical fiction, drama, and magical ...