A vengeful spirit. A small town’s tragic legacy.  A lurid ménage. Five linked deaths. 

A prodigal return. A state basketball championship. A chance at re-birth. The thrill of teaching and learning.

One flawed hero. Four incomparable heroines. Three murder suspects. A virtuous suicide.

The tortuous journey toward actualization and redemption.

The Seekers of Wisdom.

Bold, intricate, genre-bending, literate, moving and wry, The Seekers of Wisdom is designed as a confessional by a forlorn, endearing, but unreliable narrator. Adopting the form of a trial, with the reader cast as jury and tasked with sifting through exhibits by both prosecution and defense, Seekers culminates in numerous, conflicting verdicts—all of which deliver poignant resolution, while providing commentary on the human condition and the meaning of life. 

The narrator is J.J. Seeker, who, in Part 1 (“Exhibits for the Defense”), recounts the stories that shaped his life: the myths that have driven and defined his home town, the childhood tragedy that led to the death of his siblings and suicide of his mother, the estrangement from his father, and his return to teaching and successful turn coaching basketball at his old high school. In Part 2 (“Exhibits for the Prosecution”), J.J.’s relationships with his star pupil/point guard/nanny and her enigmatic mother are investigated by the police. The probe culminates in a searing interrogation regarding J.J.’s possible role in the deaths of his despicable father and his cherished student.

Blending mystery, suspense, literary fiction, humor, sports, aberrant sexuality, philosophy, and romance, The Seekers of Wisdom is an intricate tale of tragedy, loss, guilt, recovery and redemption. Addressing questions of myth, chance, fate, actualization, will, morality, choice, and God, it carries resonances of Eco, Orwell, Marquez, Auster, Crais, Salinger, Irving, and Kundera, with a soundtrack by The Beatles, Supertramp, Jim Croce and Harry Nilsson.