About This Book
When an English teacher from Seattle watches a young surfer on the news recounting his encounter with a shark, her life spirals out of control. The stranger resembles not only the boy she loved and lost in her teens but also their son who died in a motorcycle accident. Curiosity leads to obsession and Ana moves to San Diego where, with luck and cunning, she becomes the boy’s teacher. Since the boy is not interested in having a second mom, Ana finds herself walking a thin line between the motherly affection that he inspires as a dead look-a-like to her deceased son and her teenage self who’s attracted to this young double of her first love. But her worst nightmare is yet to come when she learns the truth about the mysterious student. Ana is in fact the boy’s real mother, but the woman who stole him will stop at nothing to keep him as her own. A deadly confrontation follows, and suicidal Ana bluffs her way onto death row. What will it take to bring her back from this early grave? Corneliu Mitrache's plays have been staged in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Paris. The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times and The Los Angeles Weekly hailed Waiting for Godex (formerly Godex Has Come) as “healthy originality,†“thought-provoking,†and “funny as hell.†His first novel was translated and published as La Traversée du Styx by Editions Denöel/Gallimard, Paris. “We have talked a lot about [Michel] Houellebecq and [Bret Easton] Ellis, but hardly about Dan Lungu and Corneliu Mitrache, authors who also rock.†-Technikart magazine
