"The narrator, who was born in 1940, lost his father in the war. He was a grunt in Vietnam, had a six-hour surgery without anesthesia, and then his son was killed in the Second Gulf War, and his wife was killed in a terrorist incident."
"For killing the terrorist who killed his wife, he was villainized and ostracized and sued. His house was burned down. He lost everything and ended up on the docks in Brooklyn without shoes, delirious with fever."
"The trajectory of the book is kind of like a whale. The whale dives down into the darkness, into the cold, and then something turns it around. It powers up like a rocket and then breaches the surface, into the blue sky."
The narrator of 'Elegy In Blue' is an 82-year-old man living in a Brooklyn apartment, haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost. His life has been shaped by tragedy, including the loss of his father in war, experiences in Vietnam, and the deaths of his son and wife. After avenging his wife's death, he faced societal rejection and lost everything, ending up homeless. The narrative reflects a journey from darkness to hope, likened to a whale surfacing from the depths into the blue sky.
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