Hieronymus Bosch's American Landscape

By Barry Rachin

Bethany Glaspell approached the first-ever meeting with Great-uncle Vern, a man who returned from the jungles of Vietnam with a Hmong bride and warped personality, much as a cat burglar might plan his next heist, telling no one, neither friend nor family, her intentions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barry Rachin
• Release date: Oct 16, 2019
• ISBN: 9781465752550

Barry Rachin

About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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Hieronymus Bosch's American Landscape

Barry Rachin

Published by Barry Rachin, 2019.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

HIERONYMUS BOSCH'S AMERICAN LANDSCAPE

First edition. October 16, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 Barry Rachin.

ISBN: 978-1465752550

Written by Barry Rachin.

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Hieronymus Bosch's American Landscape

Hieronymus Bosch's American Landscape

by

Barry Rachin

BETHANY GLASPELL APPROACHED the first-ever meeting with her great uncle much as a cat burglar might plan his next heist, telling neither friend nor family her intentions. She placed the long distance call late Thursday afternoon when no one was home; she even bought her plane ticket on the sly. Now the twenty-five-year-old woman with the frizzy auburn hair and hazel eyes was sitting in a rental car in the middle of the woods just outside Rehoboth, Massachusetts, staring down a badly rutted, gravel driveway that emptied out alongside a cedar-shingled farmhouse.

Forty-two years - that's how long it had been since anyone in the family had seen or heard from the reclusive, Great-uncle