Another Broken Wizard
by Colin Dodds
306 pages· 2011
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Jim Monaghan really didn’t want to go back to Worcester. First, his newly divorced father needed open-heart surgery. And then Jim lost his job on Wall Street.
Making daily trips from the hospital to his father’s empty apartment, Jim seeks solace in the only place he can—his childhood best friend, Joe Rousseau.
Their friendship hasn’t changed over the years. But Joe has problems. In a fit of drunken rage, he’s begun a feud with a local gang. And his plan to resolve the matter only makes things worse.
Tending to his father and embarking on an ICU romance in the day, Jim tries to help his friend. He follows Joe into Worcester nights defined by drugs, guns and fistfights.
As the consequences escalate, Jim must make a painful choice to save his friend. And then he has to live with the agonizing consequences.
Another Broken Wizard is a book about straddling childhood and adulthood, straddling a fading industrial home town and the information-economy world of our aspirations, straddling the love for a friend and self preservation. It is an evocative portrait of Worcester, Massachusetts—both its place in the 21st century and its past.
Making daily trips from the hospital to his father’s empty apartment, Jim seeks solace in the only place he can—his childhood best friend, Joe Rousseau.
Their friendship hasn’t changed over the years. But Joe has problems. In a fit of drunken rage, he’s begun a feud with a local gang. And his plan to resolve the matter only makes things worse.
Tending to his father and embarking on an ICU romance in the day, Jim tries to help his friend. He follows Joe into Worcester nights defined by drugs, guns and fistfights.
As the consequences escalate, Jim must make a painful choice to save his friend. And then he has to live with the agonizing consequences.
Another Broken Wizard is a book about straddling childhood and adulthood, straddling a fading industrial home town and the information-economy world of our aspirations, straddling the love for a friend and self preservation. It is an evocative portrait of Worcester, Massachusetts—both its place in the 21st century and its past.
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