Here on Earth

A Novel

Brian Holers

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English

Girl Friday Productions
19 October 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Sagas; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism

Fresh out of prison and looking to make amends to his son, Tommy Turner finds himself tangled up with a New Orleans mafia boss hellbent on revenge and a past that just won't leave him be.

After a two-year stint in Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for drug dealing, recovering addict and gambler Tommy Turner just wants to reconcile with his ex-wife and young son, Jamey, and get himself right with God. Haunted by how his father's destroyed football career, failed marriage, and untimely death affected his childhood, Tommy vows to do better by Jamey.

Enter Tommy's childhood friend: Glenn Rosen. Glenn has stepped up to serve as surrogate father to Jamey in Tommy's absence, and it's brought joy and meaning to Glenn's empty life. Now, fiercely protective of Jamey, Glenn sees Tommy as a deadbeat who will never amount to anything. But Glenn is also facing his own personal reckoning. A lifelong gay man, he has unexpectedly fallen for a woman. But Glenn has bigger fish to fry when Tommy's bad choices impact Glenn's orderly existence and threaten to destroy the life he has built.

When ailing New Orleans mafia boss Carlo Bianchi comes looking for Tommy with a bloody vendetta, chaos mounts, and Tommy and Glenn are forced to depend on each other to protect Jamey from an unsettling future. With a lifetime of disappointments behind him, can Tommy save his son from his own father's legacy of a broken childhood?

By: Brian Holers
Imprint: Girl Friday Productions
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 18mm
ISBN: 9781954854901
ISBN 10: 1954854900
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brian Holers was born in the Midwest and raised in the Louisiana Bible Belt, where he played baseball, fished, and made up stories for entertainment. He has one grown son in college in California, and has lived in and around Seattle since 1989. Learn more at www.brianholers.com.

Reviews for Here on Earth: A Novel

“Here on Earth is a stark yet evocative exploration of the father-son bond and what can happen when life interrupts it. Holers draws you into the lives of his characters with spare, pitch-perfect prose. He ensures that you care about each [person] even as their repressed emotions and flawed decisions drive them toward their fates with all the inevitability of a modernized Greek tragedy. [Here on Earth is] a story that will remain with you long after the final page is turned.” —Jennifer Blake, international best-selling author