It comes to me as a surprising form of knowledge that my time in the city is more vocation than gift it is my destiny, not my choice. Deep in my bones, I knew early that I was one of those incorrigible creatures known as Charlestonians. Michael's calling cadence in the cicada-filled trees along Meeting Street.
I grow calm when I see the ranks of palmetto trees pulling guard duty on the banks of Colonial Lake or hear the bells of St. The high tides of the city flood my consciousness each day, subject to the whims and harmonies of full moons rising out of the Atlantic. My soul is peninsula-shaped and sun-hardened and river-swollen. I carry the delicate porcelain beauty of Charleston like the hinged shell of some soft-tissued mollusk. The city's two rivers, the Ashley and the Cooper, have flooded and shaped all the days of my life on this storied peninsula. His bloodstream lit up my own with a passion for the city that I've never lost nor ever will. Charleston was my father's ministry, his hobbyhorse, his quiet obsession, and the great love of his life. He was talking about Charleston, South Carolina, and he was a native son, peacock proud of a town so pretty it makes your eyes ache with pleasure just to walk down its spellbinding, narrow streets. It was my father who called the city the Mansion on the River. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But the final test of friendship that brings them to San Francisco is something no one is prepared for. The ties among them endure for years, surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as the American South's dark legacy of racism and class divisions. Eventually, he finds his answer when he becomes part of a tight knit group of older high school students that includes Sheba and Trevor Poe - glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father - hard-scrabble mountain runaways Niles and Starla Whitehead socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge X - and an ever-widening circle whose liaisons will ripple across two decades, from 1960s counterculture through to the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. But after Leo's ten-year-old brother commits suicide, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death, and Leo, lonely and isolated, searches for something to sustain him. He has had an unremarkable, happy family life. His mother, a former nun, is the high school principal and a respected Joyce scholar. Leopold Bloom King is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school.
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