Xlibris Publishing introduces Monroe Silver, author of The Abandoned of God.
Please describe your book.
The Abandoned of God is an adventure ride into the lives Matthew Lee Stuart and his son Mason Cole Stuart. Although forty years separate their tragedies, they both experience the same type of powerful, life-changing, and traumatizing event. This story delves into the complicated, funny, adventurous, exciting, often deadly lives of both these men as they discover the truth of their being led to do the holy will of God the Father. Enjoy this visit to another time and place with two extraordinary men!
This is an involved fictional story, with many characters, over a long period of time. The heart of this story is a father and a son that have very similar deadly, life changing, and traumatic incidences that occur when both were in their early teens, but 40 years apart.
This story is told through short chapters from the beginning of the book, interspersed throughout the book to the end, by the now 52 year old son in 1999. He is traveling by air from New York to Paris on a plane that is feared to be doomed to all lives on board as it faces crashing into the Atlantic Ocean far from the continent of Europe. The son, Mason Cole Stuart, tries to relieve his fear of impending death by remembering the events of his father and himself from long ago.
Mason Cole Stuart’s life changing event happens when he is barely 14 years old in rural Grant Parish in 1961. He attempts to keep this a secret. His Father, Matthew Lee Stuart, discovers the son’s secret and takes the boy under his wing to help him move forward with his life. Matthew Lee councils his son that God has not abandoned him as he feels. God did not curse him with this tragedy as he thinks. He will have to move forward in a life that is now changed. He will not go back to the carefree boy he was before this deadly incident. His destiny is now to be different, but his life can become a better life through living it forward and not looking back.
Who is the author behind the book?
I am a former investment councilor and sales director for Pharmed Services to Nursing Homes and Courier Service to Nursing Homes with Outsource Business Solutions. I was on active duty in the U.S. Army for 6 years. I have a Masters Degree in Business from Northwestern State University. I have been retired for over 3 years and have pursued a long held and often encouraged writing passion to give others the ideas, dreams, and visions that have swirled around in my head for a long time. I enjoy writing, resistance training, yoga, and caring for my dog named “Pretty”.
Do you have any particular literary influences that helped you develop in your genre, subject, and style?
I must say that there is no direct influence on my writing style. I was inspired to write from events in my past. There have been no particular authors that I tried to emulate in style. Good or not, my style is me and the stories have come out from what has developed in my mind and memory over long periods of time in my life. I did love the work of Charles Frazier in his great book but not so great movie, Cold Mountain from about 20 years ago. He had a “folksy, unique way of describing people and events” that I think are similar to the way I had always thought, but I did not try to emulate Mr. Frazier’s style. My style is my own.
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