The Foreigner

provisional title

My sequel to The Flower of Canaan.

Now blind, old, and near death, the deeply troubled Foreigner, scourge of Anat and David in The Flower of Canaan, tells his story. But this is not the Foreigner we remember. Something has changed.

Born in ancient Babylon, young Gershom is groomed for ultimate power and domination. No price is too small to achieve greatness. We follow his obsessive journeys through northern Mesopotamian, then west across the barren sands into the land of Canaan, where, after intial success, his life unravels. When, in one moment of awareness, he sees what he has done with his life and to others, his life profoundly changes. Now as he nears death, the blind Gershom asks to tell his story one final time “as a warning.” He does not know that he tells his story to two he persecuted.

The Foreigner explores how people born innocent and good can become evil and find ways to validate their insanity and justify their lives. And sometimes, they seek atonement.