Searching for Armando

Searching for Armando examines three real lives and how they intersected, including what came before that intersection and what came after.  One reviewer called the book “a remarkable creation, encompassing a dazzling range of genres: memoir, biography, cultural history, mystery, and detective story.”


In 1945, a young wife awaits the return of her high school sweetheart from the battlefields of World War II.  When he arrives, she will face him with the severest test of their marriage.  Because in his years-long absence, she has fallen in love with another man.  This classic situation takes on its own particular trappings, some of them quite surprising, and the decision of the young couple reverberates through their decades together and through the lives of their children, especially the first-born, who is the author of Searching for Armando.