Frank the Painter

<p><em>Frank the painter longs for an orderly and predictable life...but sadly it is not to be.</em></p><p>Frank the painter's great mission is to renovate Cleveland with his Sistine Chapel-inspired garage art. A big distraction however is his lust for beautiful Carla Gymboni the diminutive mob boss of Cuyahoga County-an obsession that has driven him to clandestine acts of stationery crime. But unforeseen events are about to radically change Frank the painter's life providing him with an instant family and a motley crew of unusual acrobatic friends. And in the wake of a violent hometown terror attack he'll find himself careening from breakdown to recovery from Michelangelo to mandalas from capitalism to crime fighting in search of truth ethical purpose and a spiritual epiphany or two.</p><p>Welcome to Frank the painter's world-a surreal yet strangely recognizable realm populated by gangsters and goons villains and vigilante do-gooders little people Native Americans superheroes circus performers and a hermaphrodite child who just might be humanity's best and last hope.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>