North of the Grove

By William Hobbs

Reluctant father-to-be and avid jogger Howard Capelton, looks to stop running from his past by joining 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project. The organization assigns him to mentor and ultimately save the life of 9 year-old David Troy. David is an angry third grader struggling with his damaged and beautiful mother among the rougher, desolate streets of West Grove, Howard's proud and forgotten hometown in Miami, Florida. Will Howard be able to outrun his own trauma and selfishness to realize everything the boy, his mother and West Grove have to teach him? North of the Grove explores pain, redemption, and truth through the way we now experience life itself-fragmented, mediated, and negotiated in real time. The story unfolds through texts, emails, and messages sent, ignored, or misunderstood-not as stylistic flourishes, but as the narrative engine revealing how intimacy and avoidance now occupy the same digital space.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496171306
• ISBN13: 9781496171306
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"