"If you want to write great things, you gotta do great things. Go out and live a little." That was the advice of an AP English teacher when Joel York was in high school. In the years since, he worked around the world in pursuit of great material.
After a career as a freelance journalist, he has written a novel set on one of the US Virgin Islands. The novel's narrator is a divorced man in his mid-20s looking for a fresh start who goes to St. John, where "there were no last names, there were no calendars, there were no watches, there are only wet and dry versions of summer… The perfect place to redeem his past and create his future."
