Passages

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bound by chance and the intimacy of therapy an old warrior and a fledgling psychiatrist test each other's true north.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Miko the precocious son of a Greek fisherman has weathered an indecisive path to adulthood in medicine and psychiatry. . . or has he? Dormant in his soul is a muse for writing and a smoldering guilt of abandoning his father. His training trajectory finds him in Tulsa USA of all places where a 2 a.m. hospital admission the aging drunk and potentially violent Vietnam veteran AJ becomes the young physician's patient. A metaphysical quirk awaits them.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Unwitting confidants in the quest to understand what each is missing the two trade insights best borne from meeting the other where he is. AJ is a prisoner of the exhilarating echoes of a confusing war; Miko suppresses his own psychological turmoil while exposing that of others.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A chance meeting of their wives leads to a bond kept hidden under norms of confidentiality. Each woman finds something of themselves in the other and the moxie to withstand battles in their own marriages on their own terms.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Why AJ was brought to the hospital by the police that night pits a sense of duty against self-destruction. Why was there but a single round in his Luger that night?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In Passages the author takes aim at our enigmatic humanity. Each of us is the hero in his or her own life a contrast of magnificence and flaws navigating the complexity of principles and barriers as best one can.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At once philosophical and deeply human Passages explores identity trauma loyalty and the invisible threads that tether us to the people we least expect. With poignancy and grit it reminds us that healing often comes not from having the answers but from simply being seen.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>