The Woman in Green

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The narrator of THE WOMAN IN GREEN repeatedly insults his readers of 2050 and wishes he were instead addressing readers of 2025 when somewhat fewer were boneheads. Born under a curse at the exact moment of the 9/11 attacks he looks back on two remarkable utopian experiments-one religious the other secular-in early 19th-century New Harmony Indiana. He then looks ahead to his grandfather Sam Coverdale's visionary effort in the millennial year 2000 to create a new Boatload of Knowledge on the banks of the Wabash. His cast of characters bears an unsettling resemblance to Mary Shelley's circle of Frankenstein intimates.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>What could go wrong? From a macabre scroll found under a labyrinth to a dramatic fiasco on the world stage to a heady balloon ride to freedom these characters plus one prescient turtle hang on together as friends and lovers narrowly averting suicide within the ranks. Along the way a Byronic character merrily cites strong evidence hitherto overlooked that Shakespeare himself was a suicide. Against the odds they emerge with lasting romantic bonds and a vision that the enigmatic Woman in Green will someday prosper on Planet Earth. </span></p>