Piafsky

'An Everyman searches for truth and meaning in a life fraught with unsettling challenges, joyful milestones, and the unconscious awareness of the passage of time. This captivating debut novel follows its protagonist as he tries to understand the world around him over the course of his lifetime. Its seventy eight short chapters track the seventy eight cards of a Tarot deck; each depicts an arc in the man's life as he travels from childhood to college, marriage to fatherhood, career-building to retirement,in search of truth and meaning. A chapter of Happiness was nominated for a Pushcart Prize'--