Crossing Lake Pontchartrain

A tequila debacle leaves a forty-year-old Mississippi man sorting his mid-life mess of unemployment and a collapsing marriage. But after a beautiful Argentine painter calls out Larry Winstead's inner artist then a new job in the fast-paced janitorial services industry zips him to post-Katrina New Orleans a cadre of artsy worldly strangers help him discover who he is and who he isn't. A father's mysterious disappearance and a tossed writing dream still trouble Larry even after twenty years. But in the creative renewal of a big city pulse a hobbyist clairvoyant and an iron sculpture expose his uncertainties while a philosophical maintenance worker teaches him to Chop Wood Carry Water. Yet Emma an inspiring clear-eyed yoga instructor grasps what Larry has overlooked in his search for the fulfilled life he yearns for yet has denied himself.A serendipitous discovery will scramble the fates of Larry's new web of friends. But sometimes when things fall apart they fall together again.