Aardvark & the Boar Romantic (Or) Murderous Adventure Tales from South Africa to Detroit (Paperback)

AARDVARK & THE BOAR Romantic (or) Murderous Adventure Tales From South Africa to Detroit, by Mike DallasWhat do you do if you are March Brisbane, a poor delinquent castaway in barren north England, owning nothing but a supernatural imaginative affinity to the natural environment, when the most beautiful woman, Eloise McFarden, comes into your life? If you are March, you profess your boundless love for her. You engage her in a dangerous romantic adventure in the Irish sea. Her fiancee Frank, gets lost at sea, crushing her plans for a better life in South Africa. You imagined Frank had died, but instead he lies waiting to seize the opportunity for gruesome revenge. Eloise is pregnant. You marry her. You try to support your family, but you fail at everything so you commit petty crimes. You resent your new family and the dead-end life you feel trapped in. You're a drunk. You convince her to move to America. The streets aren't paved in gold, you end up in Detroit with a meager job at the Wild Boar Yacht Club and live in a dilapidated flat in Mexican Town. You're closest confidents (aside from a wild boar) in Detroit raise up from prostitution and addiction to excel spiritually and financially and learn to embrace their gay son Manuel, your son Elroy's eternal companion. Rather then feel marginalized again, you make the ultimate gamble to win big, but Eloise's spurned lover, Frank, rears up with murder in his heart. Will you survive the fiasco on the inland seas around Detroit? Will your real or imagined connection to the natural environment intervene to save you? If you couldn't put down 'The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao', by Junot Diaz, or were mesmerized by the beautiful poetic narrative of 'Middlesex', by Jeffrey Eugenides, and were touched by 'Where the Wild things Are', by Maurice Sendak, you will devour The Aardvark and the Boar, Romantic or Murderous Adventures from South Africa to Detroit, by Mike Dallas.About the AuthorMike Dallas is an consummate story teller, teacher and environmental attorney in New York. He taught in a South African township, and in the Bronx, New York. As a law associate, he fought the EPA for the Victims of 9/11. He fought Exxon Mobil and BP for ecological disasters. Mike was raised in Detroit and studied law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.