Motel Sepia - by Dale Kueter (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"When the enterprising black couple Elroy 'Roy' Sanders and his wife, Lillian, open the Motel Sepia in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it's in response to the lack of accommodation for traveling people of color, but Roy welcomes everyone, no matter their race or culture. The lives of Viola and George McDowell, Ben and Ann Rooney Dolan, Harold and Monica Erickson, and more guests of different races and cultures are detailed as they travel on their various journeys, and when they stop for a short stay at the motel, Roy is pleased. There is some suspense for the first group of guests when a playful hoax by a young black man in Cedar Rapids appears to result in a murder, and questions of mob involvement arise, but Roy's endeavor to run a rare multiracial motel is a success"--Publisher's weekly (11/26/2018).<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>from "Motel Sepia" <br /> <br /> <br /> . . . Roy picked up a pebble and casually tossed it into a part of the stream where water had pooled. He watched the widening ripple. Every action we take, he pondered, produces some form of reaction. Parts of the ripple bumped into the surrounding bank and were repelled, while other parts filtered through reeds, engulfing them gently. Another section of the growing undulation was quickly swallowed by the force of moving water. <br /> <br /> <br /> . . . Just a few hours ago this man was enjoying life. How can this be? Byrne fought off the impulse to consider that killing was part of man's nature, an inherited trait that was not discarded after the Stone Age. Do we exit our mother's womb with an intrinsic proclivity to harm others? Is the belief of most religions that man is basically good - is that wrong? <br /> <br /> <br /> . . . The two people, entangled in the rigors of bad decisions, traveled through one of the most bountiful regions on Earth, but were bound in the poverty of mutual anxiety. The marrow of their existence was soured by servitude. It was a tragedy in which a crime was consummated, and the usual joyous condition of a honeymoon reduced to contrivance. <br /> <br /> <br /> </p> <p>*Other books by Dale Kueter <br /> "Vietnam Sons" <br /> "The Smell of the Soil" <br /> <br /> *Available at: Author House, Amazon and Barnes & Noble </p>
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