I Am a Prayer

<p><em>The night my mom died I couldn't sleep for the fun. </em>So begins Raymond Shackleford's confused odyssey with the news he receives on the very first page of this novel. </p><p><br></p><p><em>I Am a Prayer</em> is about loss and it's about gifts and the efforts we make to find meaning in life when tragedy is an inescapable aspect of love. Ray's journey takes him to a variety of venues-from a dance-club to the depths of his own past-but it will be a chance encounter with a stranger that changes everything.  </p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center>*</p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center>PRAISE FOR <em>NATE'S NEW AGE </em></p><p><br></p><p>Nate's New Age is funny sexy honest but most of all it is wise.</p><p>-Erica Eisdorfer author of<em> The Wet Nurse's Tale</em></p><p><br></p><p>An ambitious and gratifying piece of fiction.</p><p>-Lou Lipsitz author of <em>If This World Falls Apart</em></p>