The Green Pear

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Green Pear</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is the second book in The Harrisburg Trilogy following </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Blue Orchard</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>.</span></p><p></p><p>From the mid-century glamour of New York to a quiet village on the Italian Riviera this beautifully written literary novel follows a man who searches for the truth of his own identity in a world of beautiful broken things.</p><p></p><p>In the late 1950s Peggy Drexler-Leighton is a well-known face in high fashion. But as the decade turns she finds herself sidelined by an industry that has little room for maturing women. Following a sudden tragedy she and her young son Walker retreat to their Pennsylvania roots-only to find that 'home' is a place of shifting expectations and difficult truths.</p><p></p><p>Decades later we follow Walker to Italy living as an ex-pat on the Riviera where he finally seeks to define himself to himself navigating a life of unusual pairings and hard- won independence. His quiet existence is disrupted by the arrival of his cousin Lydia whose presence brings more than just a conflicted memory of home.</p><p></p><p>As Walker witnesses the increasing strain on Lydia's marriage-dragged into the personal and professional drama of their lives and those around them-the tension reaches a fever pitch. Private resentments become public tragedies. When the local peace is shattered by a series of shocking media events the ensuing news coverage turns an intimate family struggle into a spectacle that predicts the onset of global witness that the world-wide internet will soon deliver. Walker is forced into a life- altering reckoning finally confronting the cost of acceptance and the reality of a planetary view that make it almost impossible to look away.</p>