Blue Walls Falling Down

<p class=ql-align-justify>Stella Tęsknota was ready to marry Blake Yourrick the troubled if earnest protagonist of <em>Infinite Regress</em>. In this stand-alone novel (and loose sequel) set after Blake abruptly-and inexplicably-breaks off their engagement Stella throws herself into a tough South Chicago teaching assignment. There she meets Peter Clavier (P.C.) a psychologist-activist whose uncle-a pastor-has long prophesied for Peter a future of otherworldly greatness. As Stella draws out Peter's past the novel follows P.C.'s trajectory from a Cabrini-Green childhood to surreal stardom in the orbit of underwritten radical politics.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>When his boss offers Peter a marquee microphone and he moves to D.C. Stella returns home to Milwaukee in search of steady ground. She finds her self-sacrificing father hosting basement meetings that mix nostalgia and conspiracy. In the confluence of comfort and catastrophe Stella is invited to wager on faith.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Written with a style and sensibility that have been compared to David Foster Wallace and Dostoevsky James Joyce and Saul Bellow </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Blue Walls Falling Down</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> chronicles the eternal questions that agitate our subterranean frequencies and demand more than the human spirit can give or answer alone.</span></p>