The Great Equalizer
By Rick Borsten
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While Benny’s story is unfolding, a series of flashbacks traces his unusual family history, beginning with his grandfather, Joseph, who comes to America from Poland in the early 1900s and whose pessimistic vision of death as life’s “great equalizer” is transformed over three generations into one of hope, renewal and wonder.
Like Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, The Great Equalizer is a book to cherish, for it nourishes the spirit by reminding us of the transformational power of love.
Rick Borsten
Born and raised in South Florida and educated at the University of North Carolina, Rick Borsten is author of the novels Rainbow Rhapsody and The Great Equalizer, a National Endowment for the Arts “New American Writing” selection and a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. In addition to writing fiction and poetry, he works with developmentally disabled adults in Corvallis, Oregon, where he has been living since 1978 with his wife Kim. He is currently at work on his new novel, a chapter of which was excerpted in Stringtown Magazine.
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