He is not going to the cemetery to mourn; he is going to celebrate.
At dawn on Nowruz 2021, at the height of the COVID pandemic, Dr. Abraham Macdonald, an elderly American physician, prepares to take part in a celebration of the departure of his son's soul. There, he unveils the design of a monument that will rise not for rulers and heroes, but for those who create them.
On the short road to the cemetery, a window opens onto the eighty-year journey of his life: a man for whom every time he found love, crisis arrived, and wherever he began anew, history cut across his path. He tasted forbidden loves in New York and came to the threshold of death. From university he went to the battlefields of Vietnam and returned shattered. Drawn by a passion for Persian poetry and literature, he travelled to Iran, where he fell into the hands of a band of anti-American guerrillas and revolutionaries.
In the darkness of captivity, Abraham searches within himself, and a question takes hold of him, one that has echoed from humanity's oldest written story down to the present day: how can one transcend death? In tales and myths, he seeks the roots of humankind, following the threads that might open a path to an answer.
Gazing at his son's grave, Abraham sees the cemetery as a house of stone full of empty chambers; not an ending, but another beginning. He does not remain there; he goes to entrust the most precious discovery of his life to the generation of tomorrow.
"Love in Crisis" is a novel that, moving through Chicago, New York, Vietnam, Iran, and many other cities and cultures, binds love and history together with interwoven stories.
"Those who do not understand Story remain within the tale."
