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I wrote The Art of Finding during an extended visit home after my college days. Being there again brought back intense memories of growing up with my father. The experience of being sent to look for tools and not finding them seemed to distill the essence of unmet expectations in our relationship. Most intense of all was the memory of searching on hands and knees for my father's index finger the night he lost it to the lawnmower. That futile search forever gave those everyday failures a deeper resonance.
About the Author
John Caruso is a novelist, essayist and short story writer, who lives with his lover of twelve years in Vermont. He was born and raised in Connecticut, where he came of age chasing butterflies, reading stories, worrying about the signs of the apocalypse and watching sports. All of these seemed to be relatively normal American obsessions, with the exception of the butterflies. The latter had a subversive effect on a significant opus of his youthful imagination - the creation of a fantasy baseball league (decades before their present incarnation), with rosters of made up players, a 162 game non-conflicting schedule and teams named after the local Lepidoptera. He received a BA in English from Atlantic Union College in 1991, left his fundamentalist church, and (the mariposa in him finally emerging from its closet chrysalis) came out and contemplated writing the great un-American novel. This became Lightbearer - the story of a gay man in the last days of earth who finds himself the object of both God's and Lucifer's affections. Caruso likes to think of it as a cultural antidote to the triumphal hubris of Christian fundamentalism and Western power in general. In the works is a young adult novel, Hard Magic, which the author refers to as Harry Potter meets The Beans of Egypt Maine. He is a member of the steering committee of the Vermont chapter of the National Writer's Union where he advocates for writers' rights in a world of mega publishing conglomerates and all rights contracts.
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