The Best of the Love

By Jim Donnellan

It is the late summer of 1982. Tom Dockman is making his way back to school. He meets Jim Sinclair, a freshman, at the airport. Sinclair is looking for his lost father. Dockman is going to have to find his mother again. Their random meeting is also a bit intentional, a bit preordained. It is a story about places, Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, the Maritimes and New England. It is about Canadians who sometimes hate Americans and Americans who sometimes reduce Canadians, and all the conversation and sex that happens between them. It's about politics and history, and the future, as talked about and imagined in the past. In this literary mystery novel, sometimes funny, often hilarious, the author helps the reader solve the riddles of situation and circumstance through gossip, rumor, and dialog. Through a death, a birth, an abduction, and a disappearance the novel's plot lines play out. It uncovers secrets about who and where and the self- identity: always in a state of change; always in a state of becoming. As he scanned the crowd for a familiar face, a kid cast a darting glance in his direction. Never seen him before, Tom Dockman thought. Green in the gills. A freshman, looking for company too...The kid rose up unexpectedly. Dockman was surprised by the great height and bulk of the boy. He placed his book down on his carry-on and headed off toward the men's room. Dockman walked over to the window, beyond the kid's seat. He looked back and read the book's title. Kerouac's On the Road. I think of Dean Moriarty, the father we never found. I think of Dean Moriarty. The paperback book's binding was broken from use, flaring the book cover upward. A name was written on the flyleaf: J. Sinclair...The plane was boarding. Dockman got in line. He was confident now. He was feeling much better. What's a better cover at customs than big romantic youth?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1665798394
• ISBN13: 9781665798396
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"