Bedeviled

BEDEVILED: A NOVELLA is the latest publication from Manoa Books (an imprint of The Manoa Foundation) and El Leon Literary Arts. At war with the better angels of his nature Ted Koga takes refuge in a realm of fantasy and sensuality. He comes to prefer it to his daily life then discovers that it is as unsafe as it is seductive as likely to expose his secrets as keep them. The online identity he fashions helps him to survive but it also threatens the fragile realities of family love and faith in himself. Pat Matsueda inhabits with great sensitivity flawed people usually dismissed and scorned in our culture challenging reader assumptions while still keeping her characters' feet to the fire. A graceful book by a courageous writer.--Ann Pancake BEDEVILED's intention is not to offer yet another example of a man at the edge of desperation but to search for a way back to a compassionate order of things where the body has its own integrity sex its own loving and healing power.--Alok Bhalla