Beach of Stars

<p>National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan calls David Horsey's <em>Beach of Stars</em> a wonderful novel and a masterful bit of storytelling. National Book Award winner Charles Johnson says the novel is amazingly good. Best-selling author Will Schwalbe puts it simply: The book is terrific. <em>Beach of Stars</em> opens with a 21-year-old college student working a summer job in Mexico. In an act of whimsy he takes a beer to a young woman on a secluded beach. That simple decision ignites a chain of events that twenty years on lures him from his career in city politics into a search for the now-fugitive woman -- a journey of revelation that climaxes in a star-crossed reckoning with the past. More than a romance more than a mystery <em>Beach of Stars</em> is an odyssey steered by the small choices impulsive actions bad timing and happy coincidences that propel human lives toward calamity or bliss.</p>