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NOWHERE NEAR THE SEA OF CORTEZ  (available May 1, 2001) Jim Harris Fiction/Literature, Willowgate Press, $12.95, ISBN 1930008015 ABOUT THIS BOOK A phone call reunites Jacob Belmo and his cousin Dorina after fifteen years apart. Dorina has been unjustly imprisoned for shooting a naked lawyer in a parking lot, but Dorina isn’t angry. Nothing ever gets Dorina down for long, and Dorina just wants to talk about old times. The most magical time of their lives was the summer of 1969 when Dorina was ten and Jacob was twelve. Neither of them could forget the people of the little town of Darwin’s Ferry: Leonard and Nettie Downs, their crazy old grandparents, George, the angriest poet in the world, the historian, Delancey, who had come home to Darwin’s Ferry hoping to make peace with his daughter before he died, and of course, Betsy, sweet fifteen and the object of Jacob’s heartfelt desire. Then there was the matter of Dorina’s dead baby brother wrapped up in a blanket in the basement, and the local game warden, mean as a snake, who had gunned down Leonard Downs’ oldest friend and was just waiting for the right moment to gun down Leonard. Still Jacob and Dorina had the time of their lives that summer, until Dorina’s father, who was black as coal and not ashamed of it, returned to claim the blonde wife he had left behind, and sparked a racial incident that rocked that little town along the banks of the Wabash River... Praise for Nowhere Near the Sea of Cortez: Nowhere Near the Sea of Cortez does what the best fiction is supposed to do: get under your skin...the author’s quirky, dead-pan prose is perfectly suited to its often angry but other times surprisingly gentle take on human nature. Richard Russo—author of Straight Man and Nobody’s Fool Author Biography Jim Harris is a professional web-site designer. He is also a writer and poet who lives in O’Fallon, Missouri and teaches English at Jefferson College in nearby Hillsboro. He is currently at work on a new novel called A Bottle of Rain. Mr. Harris can be reached for interviews at jimbuk@hotmail.com <<<CLICK HERE TO GO BACK to MORE TITLES

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