Search - The Feast of Love

In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones." "In vignettes both comic and sexy, the owner of a coffee shop recalls the day his first wife seemed to achieve a moment of simple perfection, while she remembers the women's softball game during which she was stricken by the beauty of the shortstop. A young couple spends hours at the coffee shop fueling the idea of their fierce love. A professor of philosophy, stopping by for a cup of coffee, makes a valiant attempt to explain what he knows to be the inexplicable workings of the human heart.

This novel is a banquet for the soul. Many wonderful characters which intersect...unexpected is always upon us.

The story begins with a shadowy character named "Charlie Baxter" who suffers from insomnia and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He's a story-collector, and at the beginning of the novel he's collecting stories about love. These stories gradually take over, and the story-collector disappears, as he should.