Set in post-modern mid-America with flashbacks to the ‘60s, Diving for Carlos is a story that takes the taboo-breaking dimension of Native American trickster tales to the zenith and beyond. In this classic telling of the American myth, a haunted veteran rediscovers his hometown and makes peace with his own conflicted soul and poignant memories of people and places he has known.
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Set in post-modern mid-America with flashbacks to the ‘60s, Diving for Carlos is a story that takes the taboo-breaking dimension of Native American trickster tales to the zenith and beyond. In this classic telling of the American myth, a haunted veteran rediscovers his hometown and makes peace with his own conflicted soul and poignant memories of people and places he has known.
Working on this novel taught me a lot about storytelling, America, archetypes in the human psyche, and language. It held on to me for a long time, then finally let me go, so I could tell some other stories. The experience of wrestling with this work is still a mystery to me.