The last thing Monica Zane expected to find on a summer day in the park was love. She had no preconceived notions about it or glamorous thoughts. Yet when Neil Mission walked into her life during a fundraiser her world changed. Realization follows the young couple for a year through their ups and downs, their successes and tragedies. Introducing a unique group of characters and bringing all of them together, Realization throbs with familiarity and drive. The two lovers will draw you in with their passion and feverish devotion. Written in a stripped down style with plenty of wit and sarcasm, this is the fifth outing by Canadian teen fiction author Christian Bewell. He lets the character's emotions and frustrations bleed off the page and fuse with the reader. You will be laughing and crying but most importantly, you will be glued to the page, unable to look away until it's too late.
Christian Bewell was born in Edmonton, Alberta in October of 1990. His father is a warehouse worker and his mother is a student in university in the social work program. His older sister is a mother of two and her husband is a millwright. Christian shuffled back and forth from home to home and even spent time in a women's shelter with his mother and sister. He has worked retail jobs and is currently in school for upgrading. Christian has been a vegetarian since 2004, openly bisexual since 2006 and has atheist, capitalist and anarchist leanings. He wrote Affinity over the course of the 2010-2011 holidays and published it on Valentines day.