The Plot Thickens

 

So, in these blogs, I’ve been introducing myself and what I care about.

And doing the same with beautiful Greece.  

But, you may ask, what about the book?  Why read your book?

Kronos, dear reader, is a big, sprawling love story that begins when its star-crossed lovers—all three of them!—are young and crazy in lust as well as love, and follows them along the ups and downs of their lives,

until finally, when they are old and gray, it all comes to a satisfying climax and true love (however defined)

either does, or doesn’t, win out while they still have a chance to enjoy it.

And it’s situated in a beautiful place that you like to visit, even in your imagination.

Kronos is simply a good story, the kind of book I grew up liking, with strong characters I either enjoyed

spending time with or else those I loved to hate, who came together in compelling situations somehow

entrancing, in worlds that frankly were more consistently interesting than everyday life.  They fight in

wars and thrive in peace, and their families often provide them security and solace. Some leave their

homes for lives far away, and others hunker down forever in the village. If asked, they might not define

their lives as idyllic, but as a reader, I always enjoyed my hours with these good people leading good lives.

And I loved to stretch out or curl up on a nice soft couch, and let my imagination roam free in the so

different worlds of these storied characters.

“Always has her nose in a book,” my mother would say.

Often I still do, and I like to think that for you, too, Kronos provides that kind of reading heaven.

In this case, Kronos is a multi-generation family saga that tells the story of two Greek brothers in love

with the same village woman from adolescence to ripe maturity.  Yorgos marries her but never quite wins her.

Christos has to leave her to survive when they’re young but never forgets her, who yearns for her,

who studs his life with longing.  And the woman, what of the woman? Perhaps, in all honesty, the man she

actually loves most and who makes her perfectly happy is her son.  But she has her yearnings, too,

and her memories when love once was…well…passionate and sexual and zinged her like electricity.

Adding more zest to this Greek story which is spicier than souvlaki are the secondary

characters—family members, of course—who make virtually every Greek tale one of idiosyncratic

individuals who keep life rich and full. Perhaps the secret of life, which leavens traditional cultures in

other parts of the world, are loving families like those we get to know in Kronos. 

Together this family and these lovers provide drama, joy, deceit, betrayals, forgiveness, seething

emotion, and the wild and sensual rhythms of a country that always seems to be living on the edge of triumph

or tragedy.

Yes, yes, in another blog I will share more about the plot, although—as in what you are

reading—I shall take care not to spoil a darn good story. Another pleasure of reading is a seductive

author who knows how to spin, weave and unfold.

            ---Laurie Devine, Kronos author     

Kronos ~ Now Available on Amazon Kindle!

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