Babylon

by Gary Bargatze

This eighth and final book in the Your Winding Daybreak Ways series, the novella, Babylon: A Human Requiem, opens with the English PhD candidate, Kyle, editing his sister, Samantha's, completed manuscripts of the seven previous novels in the Your Winding Daybreak Ways series and the unfinished draft of an eighth work tentatively entitled, Babylon: A Human Requiem. This eighth manuscript has remained unfinished because Kyle's sister disappeared ten years earlier without a trace. During the editing process, Kyle becomes convinced the seven completed novels closely parallel his sister's life and hold clues to her disappearance and perhaps to her whereabouts. His investigation leads him from Block Island, Rhode Island, to Williamstown, Massachusetts, and from Washington, D. C. to Maui, Hawaii. As the result of his investigation, Kyle learns disturbing things about his own life; Samantha becomes a character in her own unfinished work; and Kyle, rather than finish editing the drafts for his PhD, is left to complete Babylon and publish the overall encyclopedic narrative as the Your Winding Daybreak Ways series.

122 pages, Paperback

Published February 28, 2018

About the author

Gary Bargatze is the author of Warfield, Happy Hollow, Hurricane Creek, Hollow Rock, McGill, Cabedelo, Thunderwood, and Babylon, the eight works in the critically acclaimed ten-part fictional series, Your Winding Daybreak Ways, comprised of a prologue, epilogue, seven novels and a novella. Mr. Bargatze divides his time between Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Berkshires of Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Sheila Keenan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Throughout Mr. Gary Bargatze's compelling and captivating series: Your Winding Daybreak Ways, I pondered the haunting questions: How does one overcome adversity? How does one find a way out of "Babylon"? By the end of his 8th and final novel, Babylon: A Human Requiem, I reached my eureka moment!

Mr. Bargatze's closing novella culminates in a poignant and beautiful denouement that not only assuages our existential angst but it also enlightens our spirit. The discovery and revelation of the estranged Professor Samantha Lynch's lifelong work by her son, Kyle, shouts out at us all to live lives of worth and meaning, to ultimately wind our days in pursuit of what really matters. Through Bargatze's rich characters and their realistic, relate-able lives, we see, we feel, and we learn that love is the goal--the one to be given, the one to be reaped, and yes, the one to be cherished. Love is the way out of "Babylon"!

Thank you Mr. Bargatze for a heartfelt, conscience-piercing, soul searching, and rewarding journey through your masterpiece series: Your Winding Daybreak Ways!

[Pam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Babylon A Human Requiem. Completing the Two Hundred year journey. "If all the dreams which men had dreamed during a particular period were written down, they would give an accurate notion of the spirit which prevailed at the time", Hegel.
Wonderful series - Thought provoking. Such a talented author.