Boone Jacobsen is a failed astronomy professor who has let his life languish to ruin. A strained marriage, a distant son, a department chair quietly hinting for his resignation. When he inherits a restaurant in Key West, Florida, he sees a chance to escape and turn his life around. Instead, he continues his downward spiral until he wakes on the sidewalk one fine morning.
Boone’s Landing is a novel of attrition, inaction winnowing family and spirit. At turns comic and bleak, it details a year-long trough in the lives of Boone, his wife Joan, and their son Kyle. We follow each as they grapple with Boone’s unwillingness to engage, Joan’s infidelity and Kyle’s ultimate coming of age.
This contemporary literary novel is complete at almost 100,000 and really needs to find a home.
You can read a published excerpt online at Is Greater Than: http://isgreaterthan.net/2010/09/outside-a-pewter-sky/.