The Meaning

by Grant J Venables

Overview

A boy grows to be a man: a majestic lake is his childhood home, a small town his surrogate mother, a lonely girl his only true love. An odyssey, an education, a departure, the East, confusion, meaning...fathers and sons, friendship, fidelity, and the face of a woman he cannot shake, all these force him to try to find the meaning.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045143851
Publisher:	Grant J Venables
Publication date:	12/09/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	307 KB

About the Author

I am a Canadian who lives and writes in Southeast Asia. Presently I work in Kuala Lumpur, teaching English Literature. I was born and raised in and around Shuswap Lake in south-central British Columbia, but I have also lived in northern Alberta. I went to school at Grande Prairie Regional College, then I moved to Edmonton Alberta, and attended the University of Alberta. From there I moved to Bangkok, Thailand and furthered my studies with Michigan State University. I am married to a wonderful woman, Kaeo (who is on the cover of Bangkok—Just Under the Skin). I have three sons, Kritsana, Heathcliff-Manx, and Keats J. We keep a small farm in Thailand where we raise organic fruit and produce, and ducks…a great number of ducks.

When not reading, writing, or teaching, I spend time with my family, my friends, my ducks, and my trees. Trees provide a certain sanity and calm in a world so often too concerned with the insane rush to destroy itself.