Five characters' search for meaning during times of crippling passion, debilitating love, and hopeless disease.
**Excerpts from 'Abernath the Forgotten' begin in chapter 4.
"I am obliged to acknowledge the miserable pain of life, and am privileged to experience a beautiful life of pain."
In Losing Michael Malone, five characters search for happiness in a time of suffering. Emma is blind to the sunshine that gleams around her each and every day. Maddie witnesses a drained and exhausted marriage. Jack is without solitude in a life of inner conflict and self-loathing. Love and compassion rip and tear through the life of Kathryn. Michael hurts too much to feel anything.
Through all of the pain of passion and disease, this cast of characters is on a collision course towards each other—no matter how much they’d like to run away. It all contributes to the narrative of what we refer to as life. Nothing keeps us from it, and everything tries to take it away.
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'Abernath the Forgotten'
Without memory of crime, punishment is torture. And without memory of life outside of prison, inmates are much less hostile. Abernath, for offenses unknown to him, will soon be forgotten.