Come Back, My Love

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John Bodnar has woven a compelling and passionate tale of true love, infidelity, racism, professional jealousy, lesbianism, lust, and unrequited love against the background of a fictional college set in idyllic Carmel Valley, California. Dean Rex Borden learned, at the age of thirteen, the qualities which have carried him through most of the delicate personal aspects of his life. This one year, however, in his professional academic life tests his resilience to put to use the hard-earned traits of obedience, patience, understanding, forgiveness, and tolerance among his diverse faculty. Told with poignant feeling and lucid writing, Bodnar has depicted the plights of his brilliantly drawn characters with sympathetic and often deservedly scathing insight. Lizbeth glides elegantly and sophisticatedly through these pages; Gillian is caught between two worlds and almost destroyed; Traci and Rutland witness personal and professional bias in their forthcoming miscegenation; Sheila, Michael, Edward, and Sarah must work out tragic relationships; Marion and Gerald live a life of love and devotion; Jesse must look within himself for a justifiable answer to his questionable behavior. And Dean Rex Borden must continue to uphold his innate qualities with complacency throughout the almost untenable situations with which he is faced.