Dweller On The Boundary

by Chris Vise

Overview

Christopher Michael Rhodes is a gifted child growing up in the 1980s in the strange, rural community of New Hope, Georgia in the American Deep South. In this debut novel by Chris M. Vise, inspired by true events, follow a young seven year old boy for the next ten years as he learns to navigate life, love, death and his family that crumbles like the red Georgia clay in a drought. He will draw upon the game of chess and the lessons of the dark wooded ridges of nature surrounding him to maneuver across a boundary of secrets, abuse and betrayal from attempted murder, suicide to sexual abuse and mental cruelty. In the Rhodes family, nothing is as scary as the sound of a cracking pine tree in an ice storm.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185842539
Publisher:	Chris M. Vise
Publication date:	08/22/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	702,685
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

I am a Generation X gay writer. You cannot be much more outside the mainstream of popular writing than that in the 2020s. After years of living in the city of Atlanta, I have moved to a house on a hill just over a river somewhere between Athens, Georgia and Atlanta. I can listen to an owl at night, see the stars again and there is even a hawk that drops by to sit on my back fence in hopes of catching one of my squirrels. The country boy in my heart is again satisfied and if I need to answer the call of a city that sometimes haunts me like an aching joint then I can drive to Atlanta, though I kind of prefer Athens these days.

I was born on a hill in New Hope, Georgia and left in the 1990s to live on Ponce de Leon Avenue in an old factory in Atlanta. Once I had my fill, I moved to an 1800s Victorian mansion in Louisville, Old Louisville to be more precise. I had no plans of returning to Georgia, but circumstances called me back. I returned to Atlanta and as I once told a friend, I was afraid that if I did move back to Atlanta that it would snare me and I never would leave. It held me until 2021 and now I'm somewhere over a river, through some woods and atop a hill.

My hobbies are hiking, reading, photography, chess, gardening and travel. I am an avid music listener and enjoy many genres from rock to classical and jazz. My favorite rock band is R.E.M. and my favorite classical composer is Erik Satie.

I spent a significant part of my adult life in radio and television broadcasting. I worked locally and at the network level. I appeared on radio stations from New York to LA. I am no longer behind a microphone and at times I do miss it. Someone once said to me that radio was a disease that gets in your blood and it never leaves you, I agree.

I have a serious addiction to coffee and like to sample the local coffee shops when I travel. Old cemeteries are also places I like to wander through. I am happy in the middle of the wilderness, a beach or in a city center - just allow me some quiet time to relax.