ABLE WAS I
August 15, 1985. "Before I saw Elba, there was nothing but sea and sky. Then it appeared, small on the horizon, an insignificant fleck just below the vanishing point. On the water, perspectives are not forged from hard angles. No perfect square is centered upon the edge of the sea. The imminence is the same, yet the path, variable. Nascent and amorphous, the island bobs up, down, right and left as the boat stays its course."Fourteen years later, Grey Tigrett is still adrift. To escape the emotional impotency of both his past and present, he has retreated to the exile of his dreamy, analytic mind. On the eve of the new millennium, three pivotal events shatter Grey’s asylum and lead him to discover whether Elba was his downfall or will be his savior.