Voices in the Blood

An Author Contemplates The Motivations Of His Characteran Alienated Exiled Youth In Seventeenth Century France; A Modern Character Struggles To Derive Personal Meaning From An Unknowable Past And In The Fusion Of These Two Efforts Emerges A Narrative Of Discovery: Who We Are And The Forces That Define Us. Voices In The Blood Is A Novel About The Stories In Each Of Us The Voices That Inform Those Stories And Make Us Unique. Listening To Our Own Voices Gives Each Of Us A Sense Of Being A Sense Of Belonging A Sense Of Connection To Our Near And Distant Past And A Future Stretching Away Before Us. It Gives Us A Sense That We Are Indeed The Center Of The Vast And Mysterious Universe. Sitting In A Cemetery Surrounded By The Graves Of His Forebears The Twentieth Century Character Says Sometimes I Think That They Really Do Know That Im Here All Of Them Even The Ones That Died Long Before I Was Born And I Think They Can Talk To Me And I Stand Very Very Still And Listen For Their Voices