
The author of SOMETHING MISSING returns with another hilarious and
sneakily profound tale about a man whose behavior is truly odd, but
also oddly relatable.
Milo Slade, a thirty-three year old home healthcare aide, is witnessing
the rapid dissolution of his three-year marriage to a polished, high-powered
attorney named Christine. Though Milo doesn't quite know the root
of his marital problems, he inevitably blames himself, or more specifically,
he faults the demands his obsessive compulsive personality place
upon him--the need to open a jar of Smuckers grape jelly or sing
99 Luftballons in front of an audience, to name just a couple.
Yet Christine is still none the wiser about these inexplicable quirks
as Milo has painstakingly hidden them from her and everyone else
for years. No one knows the true--and in his mind more insidious--Milo,
and such is the root of his profound loneliness, especially now that
he and Christine are living apart during a trial separation.
Then one day Milo stumbles across a video camera and tapes, left
behind in a park. He watches the first tape, which is a heartfelt
confessional by a young woman who begins to reveal her secrets, starting
small at first, and finally revealing that she blames herself for
a tragic death of a friend. But not all the details add up and Milo
is struck with the urge to free the sweet confessor from her guilt.
He is, after all, an expert in keeping secrets…
In typical screwball fashion, Milo sets out on a cross-country journey
to crack the case, but quickly gets sidetracked as his un-ignorable
demands call. But it is during these sidetracks that the true meaning
of his adventure takes shape. Milo is weird, but as he discovers,
so is everyone else. UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO is a humorous and touching
novel about finding oneself, embracing the journey, and, unexpectedly,
love.