The Green Pear

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Green Pear</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the second book in The Harrisburg Trilogy following </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Blue Orchard</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>As a boy growing up in a bi-racial household in 1960's Harrisburg Pennsylvania Walker Leighton-Drexler suffers a series of tragedies that leave him without a family. Many questions about his identity and his origins consume him. As an adult he chooses to live on the Italian Riviera mainly because as a resort destination he is able to blend in among the sea of global visitors thereby avoiding questions about the past. Over time a series of romantic explorations lead him toward a partner with the capacity to develop a unique and natural sexual equation for love.</span></p><p></p><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 a literary novel that explores the relationships and random forces that join to shape any person's life and identity: from a painful childhood event in rural Pennsylvania to reconnection travel experimentation a cooking magic show scandal loss and a new sense of belonging on the Italian Riviera.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The characters in </span><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)> explore family dynamics identity and social issues particularly those related to education religion race and class. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In contemplating the lives of these characters through scintillating and sometimes dramatic conversation this story reveals a theme that examines and challenges the judgement that often sees institutional prestige and systems of power undermining free expression in literature art and life.</span></p>