SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

Grace is in San Francisco on a mission of death. Her own.

John is a rock musician whose adulthood has caught up with him. He is caught between a life on the streets and his better judgment. Until he gets caught up with Grace. Then things get interesting.

The promise of a young evening leads to danger at night. Not danger from monsters or rapists, but the kind of danger we lead ourselves into. The kind of danger that becomes increasingly accessible in a world wrought tight with too many things to do and not enough truth.

Suspension of Disbelief is like having a few too many cool vodka drinks on an uneasy summer night. The tension in the city is high. The music is at once loud and soothing. The drugs are good. An undercurrent of sex and of violence is palpable.

Grace tells the truth. That’s what makes her different. John is drawn to her because they’re both dying but she’s not afraid. Indeed, Grace embodies that iconic notion of the artist killed by her own mission. She is tough…fearless…determined. John hangs on for dear life.

Within a 21st Century tableau, two individuals, Adam and Eve 2000 years banished, seek redemption through any means necessary. Even if it means using the very technology which is stripping them of their humanity. Even if it means death. Even if it means telling the truth.

Suspension of Disbelief is a gritty literary novel (Grit-Lit). It is current. It is urban, post-feminist, masculine and biblical. It is the story of a strong, dangerous woman and the post-modern man caught in her rapture….with a good dose of sex, drugs and rock and roll.
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Michael Dotterweich, San Francisco native, holds Master’s degrees in the Humanities, History and Theology, and has worked for seven years as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. Recent stories of Internet enabled suicides, multi-person suicide pacts in Japan, electronic peer-pressure and his own experiences with suicides and addiction were inspiration for this project.

Fiction / Literary
Finished Manuscript Available on Request
Contact: Jonathan Harris; (831) 457-9466; jharris@analoguearts.com