"Certain Things Happened," by Bert Brun.
ISBN 978-1-60264-866-1. 184 pages. $9.95
After their parents' marriage breakup, the Anderson siblings get on with their lives. Following high school, Julia and Nora find jobs in Manhattan, while younger brother Kurt continues his schooling.
World War II is already beginning in Europe. Patriotic Nora joins the WAVES. Julia dates Air Corps bomber navigator, Lt. Bill Allen, who perishes when his B-17 crashes over Germany. On the rebound, Julia marries a dull, stingy engineer.
Nora meets and marries, not for love, but to avoid spinsterhood. After three children, she realizes that her husband, Larry Atkins, is a covert bisexual. Everything crashes tragically when Nora’s dad fights with Larry, during which an Atkins tot dashes away from the scene to be killed by a speeding young joyrider.
Kurt completes college, then, physically unfit for military service and unable to find suitable work, stumbles into a position running a small hotel in Costa Rica. Following a one night stand with a Boston college girl, he belatedly learns that she has borne his daughter. By then, he’s virtually engaged to a wealthy young Costa Rican woman. He solves the dilemma of what to do in the satisfying conclusion of "Certain Things Happened."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bert Brun has been writing as a vocation for almost 60 years and went into high ear after retirement in 1993, following a career in marine and estuarine biology. He also worked in Indonesia as a rubber plantation inspector and in New Zealand as a fisheries manager. He has traveled widely and lectured on cruise ships.
In addition to his four published novels he has also written short stories, travel articles, and three produced plays. Several other novels remain unpublished.
He was born in New York City and has B.S. and M.S. degrees from two New York state colleges. He is blessed with loving daughters and numerous loving grandchildren. Curently he lives with his wife Ann (and eleven dogs and cats!) near the Gulf in southern Alabama.
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