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Ray N. Howell III, ISBN-13: 978-0-9718231-6-7, first edition Sept. 2007 (now in its second printing), 248 pages, $17.95
A community finds its heart and soul in the long-ago death of a native son.
Riverdale, North Carolina is a charming Southern hamlet where life is anything but mundane. Alongside changing seasons, local politics, church, and colorful townspeople lie shattered dreams, controversy, guilt, secrets...and the perplexing behavior of an eccentric, elderly couple who reside in a decaying Victorian house.
Elmer and Maude Lawson are connected to a series of crises that share a common thread in the Kolinski family. When Elmer and his cousin and best friend, Bernard, learned of Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war in 1941, the two pledged to fight and then return home and live out their childhood passion by playing professional baseball for the Dodgers. Whatever they did, the cousins promised to do it together, but sometimes life circumstances prevent us from keeping our word.
Rich with the gritty substance of everyday life, this is a story about loss and faith, misplaced guilt, and the age-old search for peace. The Crazy Kolinskis shows how our complex lives are tangled together, exemplifying how one unselfish life sacrificed for a greater cause can ultimately provide redemption and hope that transcends situations, time, and generations.
