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Princeton Magazine Article: Global climate, activism, relationships woven into Princeton author Huck Fairman's  latest novel



Author - Huck Fairman

My newest novel:  Noah's Children

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Synopsis:   NOAH’S CHILDREN tells the story of an individual who awakens to the many environmental crises threatening our ways of life. While global warming, visible and documented in countless cases, is the one great challenge to human existence as we have known it, a number of other developments also threaten us, including extinctions, habitat loss, poisonings, overfishing, environmental degradation, loss of bio-diversity, consumption habits, and population growth.

So what can an individual do? This story, of a journalist/biologist and father, offers some ideas. But ideas must include strategies for implementation, which require cooperation among many — a requirement susceptible to the imperfections of the species.

 

Recent novels:  TALES OF THE CITY
(two novels) St. Mary's Bar & Slipshod Watchman

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TALES OF THE CITY

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Slipshod Watchman (186 pages)
Set in New York City's West Village, this story of loss rides the events and emotions that first brought the love of a lifetime to a young, off-Broadway actor, and then wrenched it away. Within the same timeframe, friendship between the actor and an African-American neighbor and her teenage daughter is abruptly terminated by the woman's brutal murder. In attempting to clarify his role in both tragedies, and to come to some acceptance of it, the actor reviews the two, intertwined histories, frequently appropriating language and lines from classical plays he has performed - identifying particularly with murderous Macbeth. Erupting, also, into his narrative and into the investigation of the murder, comes his own version of a Rasta character, serving as conscience, commentator, and confessor. As the  actor attempts to reach the roots of these losses and unravel the contributing circumstance, the language he adapts and wraps himself in comes to incarnate the emotions, worlds, and conflicts that events have unexpectedly bound together.

St. Mary's Bar (237 pages)
This ensemble story of nine friends who meet weekly in a Soho bar opens one night when one member arrives pale and distraught from witnessing an African-American neighbor mistakenly arrested and then humiliated by the police. Most of the friends react with disbelief and outrage. Some want to confront the police immediately, while others recommend a measured response.

A number of them choose to return, through a gathering storm, to the precinct, to find out what happened, avow the victim's innocence, and appeal for speedy redress. But they are rebuffed and turned away. What follows, over the next twenty-four hours, are the friends' efforts to learn what happened, find out how the fellow is, and get him released. Their reflections and efforts, expressed in their individual styles of speech, result in unforeseen encounters and re-evaluations of their lives, relationships, and beliefs. Returning the following day to their work, they come to see that the impact of the arrest extends far beyond the immediate issues and irrevocably colors their lives.

 

Other novels by Huck Fairman

Hymn

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At the end of a long, cold winter in New York City, Christine Howth, a freelance journalist, mourns the loss of her father while contemplating the first anniversary of her divorce. It is time for her, at age thirty, to halt her drift. A first step is to begin a journal as a vehicle for reflection and a means of experimenting with writing as she undertakes a first novel. A reconsideration of her career is next, as her part-time work is not paying the rent.  <<read more>>

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