FALLING IN LOVE AT THE END OF THE ROAD

About the Book

A Most Unlikely Likely American Tale Appearances can be deceptive. First impressions can be misleading. People who might seem so different that they could never become a couple sometimes turn around and fall in love. Perhaps that’s part of what makes the world interesting. Falling in Love at the End of the Road is that kind of story. A young, unmarried Haitian woman, Isabel Jean, fleeing with her ten-year-old daughter as far away from the dangers of violent abuse as she can – all the way to Ely, Minnesota – crosses paths with a mature Caucasian widower, Samuel Woolf, who has lived in lonely isolation in his family’s lake house for two years following his beloved wife’s death.

Initially drawn together by her financial and his emotional needs, as time passes, they discover their apparent ethnic differences are superficial; their psychological similarities are profound. However, be advised: while this tale might initially appear predictable and simple, it is, in fact, deceptively compelling and complex – as compelling as the heroine and hero’s evolving relationship and as complex as the surprising if terrifying climax.

Isabel Ebony Jean and Samuel Singer Woolf may well be the most unlikely likely couple modern readers have ever had the experience of meeting.

Joyce Davidsen
M.Ed., University of Central Florida

About the Author

In addition to Falling in Love at the End of the Road, Ronald is the author of the Clementine Camille trilogy of novels: Volume One: An American Romance; Volume Two: An American Memoir; Volume Three: An American Life, all of which are available from bookstores. He published his newest novel, Crossing the Continental Divide: Three American Diaries: 1853-1854, in 2012, available from bookstores or online as an e-book. Ronald’s two volumes of plays, written while he was Writer-in-Residence at the Holocaust Memorial and Resource Center of Central Florida, were published under the titles Rising from the Ashes: Volume One: Beyond the Abyss and Volume Two: The Chronicles of Zion. The two volumes of plays are available from bookstores or online as e-books. At present, Ronald is in the process of writing a new novel, Going Sane: A Serious American Comedy.