Chris Bohjalian (author of Midwives and Before You Know Kindness) has a new book out next week called The Double Bind and it's a riveting read.
It's the story, in part, of a photographer whose life devolves from celebrity photographer to spending his last days at a Vermont homeless shelter. (Bohjalian uses the similar real-life saga of Bob "Soupy" Campbell as a jumping-off point for his tale.) A box of photographs the character leaves behind prompts an 'investigation' by an unlikely sleuth, a shelter volunteer with a past she is struggling to overcome.
And to find out how The Great Gatsby, of all things, fits into this, you'll have to read the book. Time well spent.
written on Friday Feb 9, 2007
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