A Generation Stuck in Arrested Adolescence Explored in Novel “Far North”; Nathaniel Missildine’s First Novel Now Available at Pulpbits.com

Nathaniel Missildine’s first novel “Far North” has been released on Pulpbits.com, an online source for quality ebooks. Set in the San Francisco Bay area at the turn of the millennium, the novel confronts issues of a generation of young people stalled in the face of adulthood.

The book is narrated by Gil Silo, a young man in his late twenties growing restless with his Silicon Valley tech job while, at the same time, he’s begun to fall for a coworker engaged to another man. The story follows them as they try to come to grips with responsibility and desire, maturity and far-fetched dreams.

Contrasting these characters, Far North also tells the tales of a group of foster teenagers living together in a county home where Gil eventually finds work. Opposite Gil and his friends, the teenage boys are forced into a premature maturity, where by law they will be required to leave the foster care system that year on their eighteenth birthday. The various story threads begin to increasingly parallel one another as Gil finds himself in charge of preparing the boys for the deadline of their independence even as he wrestles with his own growing sense of uncertainty.

“…I may only be capable of love when it’s out of reach, I may only be capable of passion when it’s frowned upon and offensive to every moral absolute I’ve ever tried to instill upon the boy’s at the home. I keep fragile time. I keep perhaps the last hole I’ve found in the brick wall piling up over the kind of grace that can reverse lifelong cynicism. I can’t concede the otherwise assumed lost cause. If only you could be a direct witness to it, this would all make sense to you…”

Availability
“Far North” is available for download for $4.50 at www.pulpbits.com.

About the Author
Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Nathaniel Missildine lived out his own prolonged adolescence as a newspaper stringer, a script reader, a film extra, a videogame publicist, a pre-school gymnastics instructor and a coordinator at a foster care service division. As a writer, he has been published online or in print in Boulevard Magazine, McSweeney’s, Salon, Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Monkeybicycle and Hobart Literary Journal. He now lives in France with his wife and two daughters. For more on the author visit www.nathanielmissildine.com

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