A Lunatic Love Life

<p>A lusty parable filled with hearty surprises LY A Lunatic Love Life takes the reader on an emotional and intellectual romp through a strange parallel universe and an achingly lovely romance. First-time author Stephen Leon White has created a foreign landscape with its own set of rules that nevertheless seems as familiar as the streets we live on.</p><p>A young man of twenty-one distracted by daydreams of love Oliver Sandwich suddenly finds himself in a pickle as he tries to jam a ladder down his neighborhood mailbox instead of the letter his mother asked him to mail. Falling in atop a mountain of dead letters Oliver loses his bearings as he encounters a place he never dreamed of -Letterland a loony world where letters live full lives before being called upon to take their place in the words we write; a world where Ls transform themselves to look like '50s and '60s movie and television characters who seem oddly real-yet are hopelessly behind the times.</p><p>In Letterland Oliver stumbles into Liberaltown where he is taken under the wing of the mayor an L who is the spitting image of John Wayne.</p><p>When Oliver meets the mayor's daughter a teenager masquerading as Mr. Ed the talking horse she reveals that she can compute herself to look like anyone she chooses-whereupon Oliver produces a picture of Lysander his secret love.</p><p>Hilarious and affectionate White makes us feel at home in a world we never dreamed existed. By the end smitten by this new place we are ready to embrace the lunatic Ls living their lives as best they can-with their all too human laughter and laments. </p>