To be published in November/December.
If you ever feel confused about where you are heading in life and need a mirror to help you reflect on where you are now and want to go next, Skeleton Point is the book. Finding one’s way out of the maze of the Grand Canyon’s trail system is a metaphor for how we must learn to master the pace and chose the direction of our life path while negotiating certain physical and mental hurdles.
Bizarre adventures and countless apparitions of persons-long-deceased tend to derail Maxwell’s existential journey across Skeleton Point and the Grand Canyon’s maze of trails. While reflecting on where we come from and where we should be heading next, Maxwell meets past writers and a giant snake, while Jesus and Mohamed fret about who has the largest following. Elephants are led to Skeleton Point by no one less than Ram and Vishnu to escort Maxwell with a colorful entourage of artists. The story climaxes with contemplations on the future of mankind, by world leaders, deities and their prophets, at a spectacular congregation staged in the North Rim Lodge.