Fredrick L Finch

The Elephant in the Phone Booth Fredrick L Finch

The "elephant" pertains to problems that are too big to continue to ignore. Two plucky members of an alternative political system set out to overcome problems similar to those that confound today's legislators who are afraid or unwilling to confront them, solve them, or even admit that they exist. The hapless Abe is helped and impeded by strong women who are lovers, friends, and fiends. These women are allies, warriors, and adversaries but all are as bright as a basket of light bulbs and as creative as squirrels contemplating a backyard bird feeder. In Congress, Abe and Becky attempt to craft legislation to confound jihadists, union goons, envirokooks, and criminals while terrorists try, on a daily basis, to blow them up or otherwise put them out of the business of solving problems such as those we face today or may face in the future. The characters in this story evolve in ways that surprised even the author but they represent women of the right, left, and far out. This is Fred's second novel. His first was, "Starry Nights: Stories of the Days with Jesus." One is political, the other is religious. Two more dissimilar novels have seldom been written by one author.