Quality of Quantity

An expansive narrative of love and loss, time and aging, regret and learning how to live, Quality of Quantity engages successful “Boomers” with the question they’ve been asking themselves: Was that all there was to life? Heath, a wealthy retired executive, finds the answer to that question as he narrates his story of global travel, libertine excess, and self-discovery. Tormented by guilt since his twin sister’s molestation when they were ten, Heath blames himself for not protecting her. After a career of corporate and personal adventurism, he grows to understand the Western obsession with quantity, an ethos that exploits the vulnerability of the poor, the weak, and the young. Written with plot turns reminiscent of Flynn’s Gone Girl, the raw honesty of Strayed’s Wild, and the unfettered structure of McCarthy’s The Road, the novel seduces the reader with the guilty allure of a traffic accident.