Thoughtful comment about a thoughtful work – review of Charting the Darkness
Here is a brief and thoughtful review published this week in Midwest Book Review (The Fiction Shelf, Dec. 16, 2016).
“Charting the Darkness [by A.C. Geisel] is a novel about the long, hard journey to recovery. Nick Sullivan was a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War; his years in a horrific Viet Cong prison camp haunt him long after the war’s end, driving him to self-medicate with alcohol. The death of an uncle from his estranged family leads Sullivan to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where he works to refurbish a worn-out sailboat. The process of restoring the boat strikes an epiphany within, in this thoughtful work about gradually discovering renewal and hope. Charting the Darkness is highly recommended for both personal and public library collections.” (Emphasis added]
Charting the Darkness is a novel of post-trauma human wreckage – and salvage.