THREE DAYS IN ELYSIAN FIELDS

Alex Wyrobnik is a forty-six year old archivist lamenting a past he cannot change, and obsessed with a riddle that carries him to Elysium, the abode of the blessed. In this benevolent netherworld, it is the year 1851, and here Alex meets Thomas Hodge, the man his father told him holds the key to truths which will set Alex’s troubled soul free. As Hodge guides an obstinate Alex through this place where time present and time past are fluid, secrets seep out between the cracks, including one that haunts Alex’s family history and will transform his life. Motivated by memory, guilt, and hope, the characters in this novel mine the history of golf and the heartaches of its iconic champions – Old and Young Tom Morris, Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, and Ben Hogan, among others – to expose the human frailties that affect relationships between fathers and sons, and testify to the redemptive power of imperfect love, in this life and the next.