Book description
Grant McRae has a loving wife, a healthy son, and a new career with
the local police department. Bert Commerford has a pretty good life
too, as the proud owner of Commerford & Sons Auto Service. But
Bert's sons are polar opposites: Travis is a budding junior hockey
star, and Russell is a thug loaded with resentment for Bert. When
tragedy befalls the Commerfords, Bert finds himself too haunted by his
murky past to stop his life from buckling. Russell leaves home and
almost immediately finds disaster as his path intersects with
Constable McRae's.
Told from alternating perspectives, The Next Rainy Day is a
fast-moving exploration of loss and of finding hope in the wake of
personal disaster.
"Two fathers take turns narrating The Next Rainy Daythe strength
of the writing emerges through the carefully layered plot--two men's
lives intersect through a tragic ar accident that brings one son to
death and one son to jail." Philip David Alexander's fiction has
appeared in several literary journals and magazines, including Front
& Centre, The Circle Magazine, and Storyglossia. The Next Rainy Day
has been optioned for feature film by Entitled Entertainment in Los
Angeles. Alexander lives and writes in Toronto. This is his first novel.
