A nameless protagonist works at The Scheme. All day he drives an UniVan from one depot to another. What is in the UniVans? Spare parts for the UniVans. So in the complete economical scale of things, this scheme doesn’t really contribute, but it aims to be the solution for full employment. With very strict rules everybody that works there is happy. But what happens when the workers start to doubt each others workmanship?
Paul has lost his Jenny, Mary lost her David. Two years along the road they both are struggling with their loss still. How to move on when you lost your soulmate, your reason for living? What to do if you want to live in reality, but can’t see it, being stuck in the past, in dreams you don’t want to dream? You will breath in and out, but without the notion you’re doing so. You talk to your best friends, who hate to see you like that and are trying with all their might to make you understand you really have to start living again. But how? Paul and Mary have a mission: they have to stop living in the past and take on the reality of the present. And they need each other to do that, somehow they know, they knew all along, but how to meet when you still have Jenny and David to deal with? What then?
What will happen if Hemingway plays tennis against Heidegger, or T.S. Eliot against Marx? And what are their statements afterwords? You will read it in this crazy (in the good sense of the word) book. A reporter gives all of us a coverage of the biggest sports event of the decade. Each nation is fielding their greatest names and each of those names wants to be the best. So make way for the greatest minds of the last century in the greatest battle of all times.
Lily lives with T. Ray, her father. Her mother died when she was four years old. Despite Lily’s efforts towards T. Ray to get some love and attention from him, all he gives in return is for her to work in the peach stall without books and her knees in grit on the ground when she does something she shouldn’t. The summer of 1964 is not any different until there are some bees in Lily’s room. These bees, Lily thinks, are sent to her for a reason.
When Rosaleen, the help T. Ray hired to mother Lily, is being arrested and thrown in jail for no more reason than the fact that Rosaleen is black, Lily takes control. She frees Rosaleen and they run away towards a place Lily knows holds the secret to the life of her mother: Tiburon. In that town live three black eccentric sisters by whom Lily and Rosaleen are taken in and learn what real freedom is.
