Menalcus Lankford is interviewed by Ron Wren about his novel that follows five thirty-somethings, plus a ninety-one-year-old man, who face challenging turning points in their lives. The cast includes a female environmental activist and her down to Earth roommate, an idealistic but disillusioned adman, his rationalistic, law student housemate, and an African American poet. All are put to the test when the activist is twice kidnapped by a sadistic terrorist, who himself is a casualty of our age of rage. But in the effort to find her they discover a saving means of insight which builds on the rational but goes beyond it. (2023)