Author Description

2009: A 40th High School reunion marks more than a passing of time for Tom Kelleher as he seeks rejuvenation and answers in facing the question of his own mortality. In Nina, who owns the early chapter of Tom's life, he thinks he might have found an answer. After standing in her own personal fires, Nina Hassel, whose brilliance and beauty mirror her self-destructive and self-doubting nihilism, looks to the reunion to reconnect with him across time in the millennial age of instant time-travel; one which is far more technological and socially networked than the one in which they first discovered one another. As the reunion nears and their respective spouses stand unknowingly by, Tom and Nina use their past with its conflicts and entanglements to write and re-write their lives together and apart. Together, they spontaneously road trip to an iconic monument to lost youth, discover their narrative, and evolve a new trajectory at the place where James Dean transitioned into eternity, Polonio Pass.