REDEMPTION VALUE is a mainstream fiction novel exploring poetic interconnections among Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), quantum physics and cosmology, sex, drugs and vintage R&B/Soul music, acupuncture and Taoist philosophy, Hindu theology, sports psychology, Christianity and the mathematics of infinity. It centers on a classic romance: Boy meets girl; they fall in love… Finally, REDEMPTION VALUE is a meditation about crisis, trauma—all the ways it makes us lose our religion and the one true way to get it back.

To summarize in one sentence: A Kabbalist and a physicist meet and fall in love, reconciling spirituality and science with cool wit and wisdom.

In our day of hotly conflicted worldviews, REDEMPTION VALUE seeks to enlighten while entertaining, uplift while informing. The novel harmonizes the spiritual agenda of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code with the romantic heart of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, the quirky intelligence of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time with the musical soul of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity. Ongoing public interest in Kabbalah, Eastern spiritual philosophies and also in the clash between religious and scientific viewpoints provides a continuing context in which to introduce a novel functioning both as a lively primer in these subjects and a demonstration of their oft-overlooked commonalities—interpenetrations. All this set to an essential soundtrack of Stax and Motown classics, REDEMPTION VALUE is a funky collage: a manifesto, a love story, a textbook and a hero’s journey all in one.

REDEMPTION VALUE—coming soon!