How We End Up

Jackson Levee, an ambitious young college instructor and novice poet, saves nine year old twin girls, Hadley and Haley, from drowning in the Gulf of Mexico. He writes a poem titled ¿After the Rescue¿ based on the incident and receives critical acclaim and a wide readership as the result of an appearance on a popular national television talk show. The twins mature into beautiful but troubled young women. Jackson¿s success leads him to a professorship at an esteemed university in the Carolina mountains where meets LaVeda with whom he has a temporarily happy marriage, but his ascendant star falls soon thereafter. Hadley marries a womanizer and discovers through a chance meeting that she is gay, loses the relationship, and sinks into alcohol and drug abuse. Haley suffers a depressive episode and afterwards begins an unfulfilling affair with her older supervisor, subsequently marrying an army reservist who is horribly wounded in the Iraqi War and whose PTSD threatens everything. Through the years, the characters experience both exultations and discontent. When the three reunite after twenty-five years, a devastating event transpires, but those left behind struggle to realize their destinies and find redemption.

• | Author: Douglas Wells
• | Publisher: TouchPoint Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 292 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 194692038X
• | ISBN-13: 9781946920386