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Brian Kindall is an author living in the mountains of Central Idaho, a world with long winters perfectly designed for holing up and writing novels. His books range in diversity from classically written middle-grade novels - Blue Sky, Pearl, and Sparrow - to the ongoing adult fiction series, The Epic of Didier Rain novels, Delivering Virtue and Fortuna and the Scapegrace, to his most recent adult novel, Escape from Oblivia – One man’s midlife crisis gone primal. His accolades include gold medals in children's literature at the Moonbeam and Global Book Awards (Sparrow), a finalist for ForeWord Reviews literary novel of the year award (Delivering Virtue), A Seal of Excellence awarded by Awesome Indies (Delivering Virtue), and Editor’s Choice a ...more

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Brian, have you ever read the magical children's book set in the American Old West entitled "Mr. Mysterious & Company" by Newbery Medal-winning author Sid Fleischman? I read the book as a child in the 1960s and never forgot it. I highly recommend it.

Brian Kindall I don't remember ever reading Mr. Mysterious, but it sounds like my kind of book. I'll put it on my list. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I lo…moreI don't remember ever reading Mr. Mysterious, but it sounds like my kind of book. I'll put it on my list. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I love those books that stick with you over the years. (less)

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Brian Kindall Hi Debra,

Thanks so much for reading my novel, and for your thought-provoking question.

So, why is it that everyone Didier Rain sleeps with ends up dea…moreHi Debra,

Thanks so much for reading my novel, and for your thought-provoking question.

So, why is it that everyone Didier Rain sleeps with ends up dead?

I deliberately left the answer to that vague in order to put the reader in the same mindset as Didier Rain. Is it just a coincidence, or is he being punished by God? As with all matters concerning faith and religion, in my experience at least, there’s no way to know for sure. Rain is so haunted by his own Oedipal guilt and deficiencies as a human being that his every setback and disappointment feels to him like a curse inflicted from above. The very first line of the novel even implies that Rain suspects he’s being pranked by the invisible gods so ironically manipulating his destiny, which pretty much dictates his attitude throughout his whole journey. Also, there is the “thou shalt not” issued by Brother Benjamin at the beginning that warns of punishment if Rain partakes of carnal pleasures. That has to be in the back of Rain’s mind as he wakes to find both the no-name goat and Turtle Dove mysteriously dead after intercourse. But whereas the interaction with the goat was clearly taboo, his love for Turtle Dove was genuine, if naïve, and misguided. So, if love is as holy as Rain believes it to be, and if what he felt for the Indian maiden was true love, why was the result the same with both his sacred and his profane acts of love? I realize I’m only answering your question with a question, but that’s sort of my point - the ways of the gods are mysterious and nonsensical, driven by a logic that is beyond what a fallible, mortal man like Didier Rain can ever understand. In fact, maybe the gods are not involved at all. Readers are in the same boat with Rain - we can’t know what’s behind these mysterious coincidences.

One other thing that occurs to me is the symbolism. Rain is an everyman white European. The West was crawling with them in the 1800s, all of them driven by their hungers for land, wealth, and religious freedom, and all of them justifying their selfish actions with their belief in Manifest Destiny - their God-given right as virtuous Anglos to take what they wanted, even if it meant killing the natives and destroying the land. Turtle Dove is symbolic of the natural world of the American West. After the white man came and pillaged the land, that natural world was left largely dead. Rain’s rape of Turtle Dove is that same drama played out in miniature.

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Average rating: 3.8 · 263 ratings · 102 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Delivering Virtue: A Dark Comedy Adventure of the West (The Epic of Didier Rain, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sideshow 3.63 avg rating — 71 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sparrow 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Sky 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fortuna and the Scapegrace: A Dark Comedy South Seas Adventure (The Epic of Didier Rain, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escape from Oblivia: One man's midlife crisis gone primal! 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pearl 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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SPARROW has won a Global Book Award Gold Medal in children's fiction!

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Brian’s Quotes

“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”
― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

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“and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.”
― Herman Melville

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“Try to be one of those people on whom nothing is lost.”
― Henry James

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message 5: by Brian

May 18, 2015 05:15PM

We've got a new cover for BLUE SKY! Let us know what you think..

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message 4: by Brian

Mar 11, 2015 06:06AM

Thanks Goodreads Community for showing up for my Giveaway of BLUE SKY with such enthusiasm! Those books are in the mail today! Thanks for reading!

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message 3: by Brian

Feb 06, 2015 12:47PM

My second middle grade novel, Pearl, is now available on Amazon, both as an ebook and a paperback. http://www.amazon.com/Pearl-Brian-Kin...

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message 2: by Brian

Jan 30, 2015 12:05PM

New documents for BLUE SKY are now available on the website - Discussion Points and a Q & A with the author - great guides for classrooms and bookclub discussions. Here's the link: http://www.briankindall.com/#!books/czoa

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message 1: by Brian

Dec 18, 2014 05:53AM

My middle grade fiction book BLUE SKY will be available for FREE on Amazon 12/19 - 12/23!

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