Extraordinarily beautifully written, A Magnet for Misfortune is a tale of the narrator's illicit love affair, an event that colors his entire life, mingled with the history of his family's doomed bloodline. A homely, sensitive adult, will he survive "the cancer of love", recurring mid-life health crises, and plots by three "soul reapers," visible only to those close to death, and one of his corrupt doctors and her great-aunt, a powerful voodoo priestess concoct? Can he save himself and the woman he loves?
Exquisitely told, the author rejects conventional chapters for a series of "Commands" issued by a mysterious voice whenever the narrator tires, falters, and stops. But where is he, alive, insane, or a ghost haunted by his lifelong love?
Blending elements of historical fiction, a memoir, satire, drama, and mystery, come, gentle reader and experience the best kept secret in American literature. Masterfully conceived, boldly executed, it is tale unsurpassed in suspense, romance, and a biting satire of our broken health care system.
