A Few Corrections

According to his obituary Wesley Sultan died at the age of 63 leaving behind three children a wife an ex-wife a brother a sister and a life-long business career. According to his obituary Wesley Sultan led a quiet respectable and unremarkable life. Our narrator however is about to discover that nothing could be further from the truth. Using Sultan’s obituary as a road map to the unknown terrain of the man himself our narrator discovers dead-ends wrong turns and unexpected destinations in every line. As he travels from the bleak Michigan winter to the steamy streets of Miami to the idyllic French countryside in search of those who knew Wesley best he gradually reconstructs the life of an exceptionally handsome ambitious and deceptive man to whom women were everything. And as the margins of the obituary fill with handwritten corrections as details emerge and facts are revised our mysterious narrator–whose interest in his quarry is far from random–has no choice but to confront the truth of his own life as well.