Bøger af Jason Balistreri

The novel is about John Powell, a high school teacher, and his relationship with a woman named Samantha that he meets in graduate school. John lives close to two cemeteries and the lives of people long gone are interspersed throughout the story. John feels like an outsider and is trying to pursue being a writer while navigating a relationship where both parties have deep scars.

A street artist in Chicago decides to quit his programming job to pursue being an artist as a career despite a string of smaller shows which garnered little interest. He meets a wealthy gallery owner named Michelle Werner and, after a show at her prominent gallery in the city, critics and journalists begin to notice him but he's not sure if he can cut it in the world of high art. He loses control and realizes that maybe what he sought was all just a lie, success in the art world seems superficial and once he loses his anonymity, his life continues to spiral down both physically and mentally. It is a world where few can be trusted and Mads realizes the machine may chew him up like it has so many others.

Renna got out of New Orleans before the hurricane with his girlfriend's daughter, Jasmine, and his friend, Ty. His girlfriend, Teresa, chose to stay behind. Once the hurricane has passed, Renna decides to go back to the city to see if she's still alive but it's a dangerous trip and he dreads what it may turn him into and isn't sure that he'll survive.

Bodhi Andersen is a high school boy in Minnesota who helps a girl in trouble. That girl is Mary Anne Coughlin and the Coughlins are an enigmatic family with wild boys and a powerful patriarch. Bodhi was once friends with two of the Coughlin boys when all the neighborhood kids played out in the woods, but they drifted apart when they all went to high school. Now they want to be friends with him again but Brennan Coughlin has changed. He's not the same kid Bodhi once knew, he has reinvented himself, and Bodhi must decide if he wants to get involved with the Coughlins or go back to his solitary life, while all of their childhood joys and fears wait out in the woods.

The novel is about a man named David Holiday who leaves Brooklyn after his father's death and moves to the Midwest where he marries an artist. He then returns to New York after the marriage falls apart and turns inward to resolve what he left behind. The novel is entitled Breaking Apart in the Atmosphere and is written mainly in third-person omniscient. Portions of the novel are written in first-person. It is an adult piece of literary fiction that takes place in modern America. The novel provides insight into David's childhood living in a single-parent family and why he chose to enter the military and not be an artist, despite his father's objections. When he returns, he watches his father pass away and leaves to start over again. Carlos, his father's best friend, was a mentor to him and they write each other over the years. David marries an artist who leaves him after he is diagnosed with an illness and he makes two trips across the country when he realizes that his time is finite. He picks up a strange young hitchhiker on the way to visit his ex-wife and meets other characters on his way to New York. On returning, he reconnects with his father's best friend, who has struggled with losses of his own. David learns more about his father and tries to achieve his dream of being an artist before his time is gone.

Bodhi Andersen is a high school boy in Minnesota who helps a girl in trouble. That girl is Mary Anne Coughlin and the Coughlins are an enigmatic family with wild boys and a powerful patriarch. Bodhi was once friends with two of the Coughlin boys when all the neighborhood kids played out in the woods, but they drifted apart when they all went to high school. Now they want to be friends with him again but Brennan Coughlin has changed. He's not the same kid Bodhi once knew, he has reinvented himself, and Bodhi must decide if he wants to get involved with the Coughlins or go back to his solitary life, while all of their childhood joys and fears wait out in the woods.

Four generations of the Taft family consist of (depending on who you talk to), a ringmaster, an astronaut, a scientist, and an artist all living in America both in the past and in the future. The book is told from all of their perspectives every three chapters in an experimental style that I don't have a name for, the goal was they would all dovetail in the same shape. They each experience death and each makes decisions about their futures, like we all do. The book takes place in different time periods and strives to be something that you'll find kind words for when you're talking with your mother or father.

A young knight named Peter Raion, who is about to be married, is sent to investigate a series of ritualistic animal sacrifices and discovers there are children that have been taken too. He confronts a sorceress and a giant knight in scaly armor, believed to have been killed twenty years ago, and they nearly kill him. With the help of an old monk named Ben Shaw who fought them long ago, he sets out to stop them but they will need the help of a pirate, two mages, and a changeling to discover how the two came back and what they plan to do. It is a dying world in many ways, but they must try to save the children, before the Scarlet Queen and the Crimson Knight finish what they started a generation ago.