Elementary Luminaries

By Darla @ Makenlief

The first short chapter gives readers a glimpse of Rhetta, a community fund raiser, and Rudolf Marcher (Rudy), a mega billionaire, who meet in November of 2020 to discuss her research. He stuns her with his weirdness and off-kilter generosity while failing to use direct eye contact. She had been working for months to gather data regarding certain pockets of society. Rudy's wife, Dena, is a philanthropist, brilliant, and ill but optimistic.

And Angels would be nice, wouldn't they? Or at least, thoughtful?The real story begins in the second chapter, at a college, eight months before. This is during the exact day in March 2020 when WHO deems the Covid as a pandemic. The reader meets two main characters - Mary Hawkings, a faculty librarian, and Dr. Michael Merrick, a social psychology professor. The college attempts to enforce measures that challenge the ego-driven and the technologically slow staff.

This very dear original story quickly unpeels each character's unique depth, quirky concerns, and flaws. Faculty are bumping heads in what the pandemic reveals about them - while wobbling an ivory tower existence.
Come summer, Hawkings and Merrick agree to share an August ten-hour drive up to the Pacific Northwest. Merrick's sabbatical site just happens to be near her short, three-day span location of a reunion. The incorrect detour choice brings enormity to the meaning of 'change' - it's twisted, strikingly brilliant, harsh.

One particularly surreal part of the area speaks to the Merrick, and he is forced to deal with a higher level in himself but can't form a hypothesis about its imposing nature. All is beyond his discipline. He manages it in secrecy

The reader is invited to Chapter Seven where there's a greater light offered in an intriguing new community. The fundraiser and the mega rich had been managing the course using their own strategies and challenges.

This novella's author entertained and learned and grew while attempting to reach out to both Young Adults and Mature Reluctant Readers. High School to Senior Hood will revere the tale's "detouristing" stye.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733845828
• ISBN13: 9781733845823
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Makenlief
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"