Michael Banister

Stolen Identity (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dushan's dreams had always been unusualsometimes scary, sometimes exhilarating. But ever since he was seven years old his dreams took on another dimensionit was like he was awake inside them. His motherwho he thought had been killed in the Yugoslavian civil war when he was a babywas talking to him, telling him she was alive and living with his fatherwho was supposed to have been lost at sea during a fishing expedition in the North Sea. In each of those dreams, Dushan was unable to respond and tell his parents that he was living with his "adopted" family in California and was best friends with his "stepbrother" Danilo. The two stepbrothers were now teenagers and occasionally popped up in one another's dreams, sharing their impressions after waking up. However, the time for dreaming was pastthey were about to embark on a desperate attempt to escape their abusive father, the man who arranged to steal Dushan from his real father and plant the lie that his real parents were dead. Their attempt succeeded on one level, but the consequences were completely unexpected.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Michael Banister
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781941713273
• Artikelnr.: 70917149

Autorenporträt

I was an Army brat (Japan, Monterey, Austria, Germany) until we moved to Pittsburg, CA when I was nine. I was a voracious reader, and in junior high I published two science fiction stories in my school's creative writing magazine. After a long hiatus, I began writing again in my junior year of college at UC Berkeley. I joined a group of acquaintances in 1969 who started a poetry magazine we called The Open Cell. We contributed the content, did the layout, printed it at Waller Press in the Haight Ashbury district, and sold it on the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco. That experience rekindled my love of writing. I transferred from Berkeley (where I was a comparative literature major) to SF State as a creative writing major and wrote poetry and a few stories.
Upon graduation in 1972 my first wife and I joined the Peace Corps and worked as ESL teachers in Ethiopia for two years.
Grad school followed, twice, and I obtained a Master in Communication at University of Washington and a Master in Librarianship at UC Berkeley. My writing during those years became decidedly academic and non-creative.
After nine years as a librarian (including two as head librarian at Robert College of Istanbul), followed by a divorce, I decided librarians got no respect, so I went to law school where I wrote a law review article discussing a controversial Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision. I became an attorney, remarried, and worked for 23 years at the California Attorney General's Office, Criminal Division, and wrote appellate briefs. After I retired in 2011 I began volunteering for the National Veterans Legal Services Program. I represented veterans and their dependents for seven years. In December 2019 I won a substantial award of past-due benefits for a widow whose Viet Nam vet husband had died of liver cancer due to exposure to Agent Orange.
I'm married and have two grown sons and a granddaughter who graduated from the University of Oregon in 2019. I changed my California state bar license to inactive after my December 2016 victory involving veteran's benefits.