TODD LEVINS studied molecular and cell biology at Penn State University, but soon after graduating hightailed it to Austin, Texas to be a rock star. Well beyond the point of clear failure he slunk ...view moreTODD LEVINS studied molecular and cell biology at Penn State University, but soon after graduating hightailed it to Austin, Texas to be a rock star. Well beyond the point of clear failure he slunk back to the security of a research laboratory in Durham, North Carolina. But no sooner could feel himself turning to stone. He sold all his possessions and set off on a two-year sojourn of South America. The first draft to this novel he wrote in eight months while on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. He lives with a dog in Durham, North Carolina.view less