Journal of a UFO Investigator
Set in the 1960s, this sparkling debut novel is a coming-of-age story that weaves together a compelling psychological drama and vivid outer-space fantasy. Danny Shapiro is an isolated teenager living with a dying mother, a hostile father, and no friends. In order to cope, Danny forges a reality of his own, which includes the sinister “Three Men in Black,” mysterious lake creatures, a beautiful young seductress and thief, with whom Danny falls in love, and an alien-human love child who—if Danny can keep her alive—will redeem the planet. His fictional world blends so seamlessly with his day-to-day life that profound questions about what is real and what is not, what is possible and what is imagined, begin to arise. As the hero in his alien landscape, he finds the strength to deal with his own life and to stand up to demons both real and imagined.
