The Two Shelbys (or...Love & Theft)
A novel in three threads that start separately and unite at the end.
This novel is currently at the beta reader stage. Two colleagues, both writers themselves, read it in Spring of 2025. Final revisions are in progress.
The complete synopsis contains spoilers.
The world of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY, winter of 2012 into 2013; and the autobody shops and racetracks of Ulster Co., NY; the world of independent filmmakers and intellectuals moving into series TV; the world of a 5-year-old Canadian prodigy and his mother's Nova Scotia yoga studio.
The manuscript is 88,700 words. The work fits squarely into the genre of Literary fiction.
“Loading Zones” by Kurt Vile.