Bøger af Ron Kase

Lydia Merriman, the highly successful Turner Broadcasting System executive has returned to New York after developing media for the growing African-American business and professional communities that began in Atlanta over twenty-five years ago. Lydia, a brilliant and beautiful African-American relocated to New York, her home town, in order to support her belief that the science of Epigenetics indicated that the slave experience left a genetic imprint on black Americans generation after generation right up to the present time. And that imprint accounts for some of the major social issues that have notoriously weakeed black families. After successfully collecting major financial support for Epigentics research, and then establishing a lab at Columbia University, Lydia entered politics. In 2018 she was elected to the U.S. Congress as the Representative of New York's Hudson Valley Congressional District. During her second term, the post-vulgar Trump era, the new President asks Lydia to help purge the still active pro-Trump fascist, racist and nativist elements from the nation. She joins the small ultra-secret group that has awsome power to reinstate the country's soul by eliminating those who conspire to end democracy but cannot be meaningfully dealt with by the legal system. The un-named group in Lydia's mind is thought of as The Murder Bureau.

An extraordinarily beautiful mixed race woman travels through the 1930s from the Prohibition era to the dawn of World War II moving from domestic servant to mistress of a wealthy industrialist, and on to a loving relationship with maestro George Gershwin while he completes the operatic masterpiece "Porgy and Bess," Filled with the history of Tampa's exotic Ybor City, the home of Cuban culture in the United States, readers are introduced to the place and the people that produced legendary handmade clear Havana cigars for almost fifty years. The novel also provides a perspective on the awakening of America's sexuality, glamorous old Havana and the post-Prohibition rise of organized crime here and in Cuba.

Like Leopold Bloom, James Joyce's protagonist in the epic Ulysses, Kavanagh's life is inconveniently influenced by his relationships with women. Bloom's appointments and encounters on that single day in Dublin (June 16, 1904) is an unfortunate model for Kavanagh's life in the 21st Century as a dynamic seeker of passion and intimacy with the women he finds desirable. Kavanagh and Bloom are Irish Jews, decedents of the members of small migrations from Eastern Europe that somehow found their way to Ireland, the most Catholic nation where they were welcome and lived peacefully and prospered. Kavanagh's odyssey to find enjoyment and pleasure, centers on his time with second wife Millicent the sophisticated literary agent and lawyer, the long affair with Bianca, and his deep feelings for the beautiful, elusive and mysterious Lydia who haunts his dreams. Kavanagh's instant attraction to Ciara the lovely Irish physician, and the puzzling relationship with Mary Lucy, a university president and Catholic nun, confuse and confound him. Somehow Kavanagh has successfully maintained his equilibrium as a popular professor, bestselling author, activist, atheist and acceptable parent, but he worries, for how much longer? Kavanagh isn't Everyman, although he's more like us than we want to acknowledge.