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American Float: A Novel
A generation-defining 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 struggle in modern America, rips it apart from the inside out and reveals the 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. Until it all pops under pressure.
Paul's brother James is a protester, prepared to riot to make a point. Paul's wife, Nicole struggles between family life and a career. Paul's father fought in Vietnam and holds a mystery of his own, and his mother steamrolled her way through life only to find herself alone and miserable. This is the life Paul and so many others like him float through, uncertain.
Every generation discovers they fight the same struggle of finding their dreams crushed under the heel of a system. They are groping for something to put together the pieces and make sense of it all, and when they find it, it can sometimes "re-define" their generation.
As a reader you long for an absorbing story that leaves you satisfied yet wanting more.
A moving and powerful novel, American Float rises to the top of literary fiction's most fulfilling and unforgettable stories!
Many people dream of something more than the cookie-cutter life they're supposed to live. American Float embodies that struggle in modern America, rips it apart from the inside out and reveals the 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. Until it all pops under pressure.
Paul's brother James is a protester, prepared to riot to make a point. Paul's wife, Nicole struggles between family life and a career. Paul's father fought in Vietnam and holds a mystery of his own, and his mother steamrolled her way through life only to find herself alone and miserable. This is the life Paul and so many others like him float through, uncertain.
Every generation discovers they fight the same struggle of finding their dreams crushed under the heel of a system. They are groping for something to put together the pieces and make sense of it all, and when they find it, it can sometimes "re-define" their generation.
As a reader you long for an absorbing story that leaves you satisfied yet wanting more.
A moving and powerful novel, American Float rises to the top of literary fiction's most fulfilling and unforgettable stories!
284 pages, Paperback
Published May 21, 2021
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About the author
David Xavier
39 books9 followers"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.
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