Running

The harder Henry ran, the less ground he made. "Running" is the story of a young professional living in San Diego struggling to make sense of a world vastly different from the one he expected as a child; a world where everyone is selling a formula for success, but none seem ever to work. Struggling to find his way professionally while keeping hold of his most bedrock values, Henry finds himself adrift looking for something to hold him fast. When the woman who broke his heart ten years earlier returns to his life Henry begins to feel his feet get traction. But is she really his salvation, or just another trail leading him off a cliff?This novel is a brief but intimate portrait of Henry and his fellow thirty-something friends. College educated, hard working, and willing to do what it takes; the middle class life they believed was their birthright is always just out of reach. They are constantly being told by their baby boomer parents, employers, and gatekeepers that they simply needed to try harder or find a different approach; but none of the rules they were taught as children seem to apply. Each of Henry's friends find a different way to cope and adopt their own flawed formulas for life. In the end, they find themselves making more and more compromises only to discover that the goal post have been moved on them... again.