My newest release, Faith Among Friends, is a novel I wrote about fifteen years ago. I'm not sure why I never published it. I think it hits too close to home. Not verbatim, but there were so many inconsistencies in my youth, my friendships,  betrayals I'd rather forget. There's also a deep longing to return, to old friends, to the arrogance of youth ... to all those ridiculous broken hearts. The book makes me very nostalgic. That's why music is so important in the book, important to my characters. It defines them. Music is so haunting. It never leaves one's consciousness. One hears it everywhere. When I hear old music, I stop and pause. Not only because I love Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchel, Janis Joplin and so many others who define that generation. No, it's because of the memory embedded in the sound, the emotion conjured up, the youthful smile of an old friend, the harrowing wounds, the nostalgic recollections.

I have no favorite character in this book because they are all so flawed, equally f----d up. They are my besties through time and space, through the emergence of old age. They are fictionalized and realized and remembered like that day in the rain when it came to me ... the people I knew and loved are whispers in my heart, words I no longer hear, just feel. Old friends are the keepers of my best intentions, for better or worse. Enjoy the ride!