The Novel of Life is a work of interlinked fiction blogs based on the exuberant and self-destructive adolescent misfit, Lethe Bashar.

History of a Family in Decline

A husband divorces his ailing wife and a teenage son--who believes himself to be a genius--drops out of college. Focuses on the father's pseudo-spiritual quest and the son's descent in drugs and grandosity. Comic take on the modern family tragedy.
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Madrid, Spain

Lethe Bashar is on study abroad. He moves into an apartment with a sixty-five year old Senora. Within two weeks, he undergoes an extreme form of culture shock. Between quitting classes, falling in love with his Senora's maid, smoking hashish, and meeting a group of native Spaniards, an innocent study abroad program turns to living dangerously.
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Las Vegas

After getting kicked out of a halfway house in San Jose, California, Lethe takes a Greyhound bus to Vegas. He finds a youth hostel on the West side called The Backpacker's Inn. This Hotel California is refuge to a host of misfits and wanderlusts. Louie, a cherry-faced man, befriends Lethe and walks with him through the underbelly of the Las Vegas world.
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