Error in translation

by P. Gordon Judge

Schoolgirl Jane Harmon never expected that Barcelona would fall victim to ``Murder by sepsis'', right there in the playground. Fired by grief, anger, and trauma, the intense, nerdy and intellectual girl commits herself to a life of meaning, to try to forge good from evil. A stellar academic entrepreneur in her late twenties, she is hailed for her life-saving ``Harmon Device'' giving protection to the few survivors of the worldwide lethal pandemic. Yet feeling empty and unfulfilled, she leaves her family, painfully driven by the tyrannical pressure of life behind the masks, with the social inequity and hyper-vigilance, to explore beyond the clinical and claustrophobic world. Her journey ends as a new path opens. Discovered unconscious, she is welcomed as a gift into the arms of a remote, undiscovered people. Slowly, her damaged soul within, and ultimately, the damaged earth and society without, are revealed in a tragic yet sometimes comedic story of life's meaning. Innocence and guilt, victims and villains, both are juxtaposed, along with twists in fate, both good and bad. Is Jane just an imposter, an `error in translation? Or is she indeed a gift? Error in translation relates her journey of self-reconciliation, and self-knowledge.

228 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 25, 2019