Coming to Terms by Warren Carrier The novel tells the suicide of Mark Horne, a returned veteran of the Iraq war, and its impact on the lives of his family: his father, a biologist from Berkeley on leave as a visiting scholar at The Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston; his brother, a San Francisco attorney; his sister, wife of a Connecticut publisher; on Leah Stein, his girl friend; and on Vanessa Parsons, a student protégée at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been a director of academic computing. The story unravels the motivations, including his tragic experiences in Iraq, for Mark’s suicide.

About the author: Warren Carrier has published seventeen books, including seven novels, six collections of poetry, a book of translations, and three edited books. He has also published more than two hundred poems, articles, stories, translations, and reviews in literary periodicals over a period of years. He was the founder and original editor of the Quarterly Review of Literature. He is a university chancellor emeritus (Wisconsin). He retired some twenty years ago to Galveston, Texas, where he has continued his literary career. click here to learn more about the author ISBN 0-9747839-6-X Fiction / $15.95