About the Author C. Bradford Eastland was born in 1955 in Iowa, but didn't stay long. Though not a regionalist by nature, most of Eastland's fiction takes place in his adopted Los Angeles County. The Basketball Expatriate , a mid-80s detour through England and Scotland, is an exception. Based on various sights and experiences gleaned from his many trips to the United Kingdom during the last fifteen years, The Basketball Expatriate is the most experimental of the author's four novels and 19 short stories. Eastland currently makes his home in the town of Sierra Madre, a thoroughly Iowa-esque hamlet as quaint as its name.
People there can almost leave their doors unlocked at night.
Sharing life's struggles are his lovely wife, two fat white dogs, and a toddler son whose very existence forces the father to share a daily embrace with Optimism. Adobe Acrobat PDF format This book will soon be available in Microsoft Reader format and PDA format.