Join us at Busboys and Poets as we welcome author Khaled Fayyad for a discussion and signing of his book Love and Promise.
Love and Promise, the moving story of a man who is set a free from the captivity of loneliness by a chance encounter. He embarks upon a captivating journey of poetic wonder and inspiring discovery; its riveting turns defy the norm and unveil the power of love, annulling all distance and abridging the divide and bringing him to face the agonizing choice: define love or surrender to the abyss that lays in wait for him.
Michael is a middle-aged man standing at a crossroads. Recently separated from his wife and desperate to seek a distraction from his chronic pain, the father of three begins playing an online card game with a woman living a thousand miles away. Although he has never met or seen Anna before, her presence quickly reaches the depths of his heart and begins transforming his life. Beginning from the moment they meet, Michael and Anna become nearly inseparable. Suddenly, Michael is no longer a recluse living with pain. Anna brings not only companionship, but also renewed hope and a belief in a brighter tomorrow. As they become closer and a love story unfolds, Michael embarks on a poetic journey where he takes to his pen in an attempt to understand his growing feelings and contemplate the ways love can bridge divides and heal wounds. But when the trust between Michael and Anna is eventually tested, he must face an agonizing choice whether to define their love or surrender to the abyss that has already begun to claim him.
Love and Promise share a contemporary tale that begins with a chance meeting on the internet and leads a lonely man on an introspective journey through his deepest emotions.
About the author: Khaled Fayyad a native of Lebanon, the ancient land of the cedars and the temple of the spirit of which Khalil Gibran was born. I moved to the United States at the age of eighteen where I have resided since. I began writing since my teens and it quickly became my refuge from the hardships that mar our world as well as the habitat within which I rejoice celebrant of life's own joy. And in both, hardship and joy, I have found love and affinity to be at the heart of all that is pertinent and fulfilling.
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