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Matthew st. Clare is a boston publishing executive who is teetering on the edge of insanity and self-destruction. His illness threatens his marriage, his job, and his life; and his fitful search for healing and salvation leads him to all the wrong places. He struggles to maintain his tenuous hold on life, and faint hints of light sustain him. The book describes his desperate effort to make sense of life, of love, and the question of god’s existence, and is a startling revelation of the reality of mental illness. It is a gripping and intelligently written story that readers will find difficult to put down.

Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Andrew Jantz resides in a suburb of Boston. He is married and has two teen-aged sons. He was educated at The Catholic University of America, Harvard University, and the Northwestern California University School of Law, and served as a journalist and petty officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He is a past recipient of the prize for Best Translation from the New England Poetry Club, and was selected as Poet of the Month by The Christian Science Monitor. He has published three collections of poetry. This is his first novel.