American Float: A Novel

by David Xavier

A compelling generation-defining literary pageturner for today's American!Many people dream of something more than the cookie-cutter life they're supposed to live. American Float embodies that tragic struggle in middle class America, rips it apart from the inside out and reveals the serious truth.Paul McHenry, an American in an uncertain world, finds as his life progresses that he's marching on a path like everyone else. A checklist of college, a meaningless job, a marriage and a mortgage, all culminating in a 401k in a world of tragic uncertainty. Until it all pops under pressure.Paul's brother is a protester prepared to riot to make a point. Paul's wife struggles between family life and a career. His father fought in Vietnam and holds a mystery of his own, and his mother sought control over everyone in her life and now suffers the consequences.Every generation discovers they essentially fight the same emotional struggle, groping for something to put together the pieces and make sense of it all, and when they find it, it can be so freeing uplifting that it sometimes "re-defines" their generation.As a reader you long for an absorbing well written story that leaves you satisfied yet wanting more.A moving and powerful novel, American Float rises to the top of literary fiction's most moving, tragic, fulfilling and unforgettable literary stories!

198 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 20, 2021

About the author

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write."

My favorite authors are the dead guys of literary fiction: Graham Greene, Richard Yates, Evelyn Waugh, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis. I have to put Cormac McCarthy and Charles Portis on the list.

These authors influence my writing. I have written seven novels. They are all free to read. Just ask for a copy.