Book description
'Her name was Felicia, a name Cullen liked. He wondered as he sipped
his beer, what ancestral dance had produced such impish racoon eyes
-eyes she was fond of hiding behind oversized sunglasses that only
served to emphasise her nose, a perfect minature. And what, he wondered,
might be the genealogy of that wickedly sullen mouth?' Cullen Kinnell,
precariously employed by a small Catholic college in Honolulu, commits a
fatal error. He falls for one of his students -Felicia Mattos. Cullen
Kinnell is an intelligent man and old enough to know better than to play
with fire. Gary Kissick's witty and richly expressive first novel
explores how unsuitable love can cause an eruption of conflicting
emotions, from which no one emerges unscathed. Upon graduating from
the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, Gary Kissick settled in
Hawaii, where he taught English at the University, wrote rock reviews
for a surfing magazine, and freelanced as nature photographer. His
writing has appeared in
Esquire, Rolling Stone, The San Francisco Chronicle,
and numerous reviews. His first book, Outer Islands,
was winner of the University of Hawaii's Pacific Poetry Prize. He now
lives in Suffolk, where he teaches for the University of Maryland in
Europe.
