AboutLatitudes; A Story of Coming Home
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| Latitudes: A Story of Coming Home |
When Father and Mother, a highflying young American lawyer and hisparty-hard bride, fall prey to the self-destructive lure of alcohol and sexualliberation, Will and his sisters pay the price in divorce and kidnappings thattake them back and forth between the rain forest hideaways of coastal LatinAmerica and the placid suburbs of Long Island. Will identifies with the oppressedworkers laboring in his father’s fast food restaurant and longs for Americanfreedom. Father remarries the daughter of a local aristocrat, and Will is sentoff to the hothouse world of a New England boarding school.
Swimming in a sea of Fair Isle sweaters and LL Bean boots, Will discovers acore of resilience in himself that allows him to survive, thrive, andultimately embrace the flawed and varied worlds he inhabits. Will reconnectswith his Mother, sinking into a New York City world of Irish bars and one nightstands he cannot save her from. With a little help from friends, and a highschool Shakespeare class taught by the school’s closeted gay athletic trainer,Will begins to see the possibility of finding his true path. Latitudes chartsthe birth pangs of a quest for self and soul — from a tropical childhood to acoming of age on the road.
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This time ofuncertainty came to an end before it could gel into something, a pattern, a newbeginning or different stamp to the days. It was one day in late August, anordinary moment that would not have remained in his memory, much as the daysthat preceded it. In Will’s mind he and his sisters, their new neighborhoodfriends, seemed born full-blown in the backyard in the midst of some forgottengame. He was immersed again, as in the swimming pool on Margarita Island, inhis inner thoughts even with the swirl of kids and dogs and the sun passingthrough the bright blue sky, as two cars pulled up on the street, low-slung,long and dark, their red brake lights warning to stop and look. Out steppedfour or five men in pale trench coats. As they walked up the driveway, Alexagasped."Father,"she said. Will had recognized him at almost the same moment."Father,"he repeated and broke into a run as Father smiled and held out his arms. Theother men stopped in their tracks. Father hugged the four children. It wasunusual, but exciting that he’d come all this way to rejoin them. The other menfrom the two cars must have been his friends."How aboutan ice cream?" he asked. This seemed unusual and exciting also. They hadnever known him to offer treats, but maybe this was his way of breaking theice, start in on a new footing."Sure,"Will said, and Alexa agreed, eager as he was, speaking for all three girls.They all four sat in the backseat of the back car. Father sat in the frontwhile another man drove. As the cars sped away, the babysitter emerged from thehouse and saw a knot of neighborhood children walking down the sidewalk, butnot Will or his sisters. Breathing hard, panic struck. She ran back inside andgrabbed the telephone.
AboutAnthony Caplan
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| Author Anthony Caplan |
You can find him at http://www.anthonycaplanwrites.com/
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