Forest Dark characters do some hanging at Bourgeois Pig

I’ve been asked why I chose this particular story to write, out of all the possibilities that are out there – certainly a fair enough question. Here’s a basic synopsis of “The Forest Dark:”

“The Forest Dark” is a quirky, family-of-choice drama about Eden and Noah, middle-aged friends who must find a way to reconcile their unresolved past with an unexpectedly strange present.

In 1984, conservative co-ed Eden von Eiff befriends young gay man Noah Baldock during L.A.’s frenetic Summer Olympic Games. Becoming fast and intimate, Noah offers Eden a solution to an enormous problem — which she can’t, in the end, accept.

Twenty-five years later, these two boomers struggle to come to grips with the choices they made long ago. They must navigate not only a troubled economy and professional failure, but also control a looming and violent threat to their future.

There are some twists and turns and some secrets, of course, and another major character who shows up in the second part of the book, set in 2009.

But back to the reasons I wrote the story. Basically, it was two things I was interested in at the time of the writing: 1) an “if these walls could talk” type of thing, focused around the Silver Lake/Los Feliz neighborhoods of Los Angeles and 2) an interest in what becomes of people who attain celebrity at a young age and then lose it.

I spent a good portion of my 20s and 30s in the Echo Park/Silver Lake areas of L.A., and have witnessed the changes in the neighborhoods and in the larger city, along with the important events of those years, most notably the AIDS disaster, but also several cycles of economic boom and bust, riots, earthquakes and fires (you know, the usual SoCal apocalyptic scenarios). The area now is going through an enormous real estate boom, that’s reflected in both the residents and businesses. I wanted to show in a fictional way what that might be like for someone who knew it and lived it at a different time, as well as younger people who accept it as the status quo (hence the generational focus of the book).

The other question that interested me was the phenomenon of early celebrity or notoriety – and one that doesn’t last. In my scenario, I was primarily concerned with political types, children of candidates who may have lost their race, or who won but then faded into relative obscurity. What is that like? Especially, what is that like if you turn out to be just kind of ordinary anyway?

I hoped to go into these things in a fictional way in the novel. Read it and tell me what you think!

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