Colorado Rising Stars
Colorado Author
Joseph Eugene Green
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Joseph
Eugene Green, Denver Author
Joseph
Eugene Green published his first novel, Pseudo Cool, as an
undergraduate at Stanford Univeristy. Souls Bizarre
represented a quiet follow-up to his first novel. Eventually Mr. Green
found
himself sitting in a corporate cubicle at the mercy of yet another
corporate merger and acquisition. Weary of the proverbial ratrace,
Mr.Green began writing a novel that would highlight the struggle for
fairness and equality in corporate America.
Mr. Green finished his 3rd novel and
sought literary representation, and publication, using the title Invisible Niggers.
While the original title did not survive the publication journey,
the gripping subject matter remains the same in his new novel Merging with Monsters.
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Merging
with Monsters
Merging
with Monsters is
a blunt, shocking and highly entertaining examination of the personal
battles waged within America’s corporate culture.
"Merging with Monsters is
a novel written to primarily entertain while giving a voice to those
who might consider themselves, and their concerns, invisible. I
also
wanted to illustrate how one can still succeed in life even after
enduring the worst that life has to offer."
Visit
Joseph Green at www.myspace.com
Visit his web site MonsterSpot
We welcome reviews via
e-mail from friends and readers, however we reserve the right to edit
or not publish any submissions.
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Cast of characters:
Anita
Powers struggles to move beyond the
experience of a horrific attack and assume a leadership role in a major
corporation.
Sherry
Malone, married a black man in defiance of
family and friends, engages in a desperate effort to save her
troubled marriage.
Grayson
Malone loses a promotion to
Anita Powers and embarks upon a dark journey toward revenge.
Julian
Quintana takes the bold step of revealing his potentially career-ending
secret to his new boss, Grayson Malone. Julian’s secret compares
little to the truth behind the most risky relationship of his life.
Read the recent
interview with Joseph Eugene Green and reviews on Pulp
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Our Review: Merging With Monsters by Joseph
Eugene Green
More than a Thriller
Merging
With Monsters
is the best novel
I have read in years. And I do mean years! From the Prologue metaphor
of the melting snow to the very last line, Joseph Eugene Green makes
visible to us those that society makes invisible. The writing is
shockingly beautiful.
In
Merging with Monsters,
Joseph Green views a corporate merger through vignettes of characters
struggling to succeed in the business world. Anita, an African-American
woman, fights her way up the corporate ladder. But will her close-held
secret bring all her hard work crashing down in front of her and the
entire company? Will the white good old boy golf partners allow her
entry into their closed group? Grayson, a black man living in
prestigious Highlands Ranch, Colorado, was promised a leadership role
in the merger, but he is stymied at every turn. Will he succeed in
grasping power or self-destruct? Phoebe, Anita’s assistant, has fought
her way through poverty and a bullet permanently disabling her to her
current position. How will her momentary error in judgment tip the
balance in the struggle between Anita and Grayson? Sherry, Grayson’s
wife, has fought her family who opposed their biracial marriage. Now,
she must fight to preserve her marriage as Grayson’s perfect corporate
veneer starts to crack. Julian, both gay and Hispanic, finds himself in
the middle of both corporate and family struggles. Can he successfully
negotiate all the power plays around him and keep himself intact?
Green’s
book is a
thriller….it was impossible to put down, but it is so much more than a
thriller.
The
author's delightful
humor
effuses the world he has created. The sex scenes are both raw and
classy. Green gives us an incredible depth of character behind the
façade and power struggles. He has given us a thriller with a
modern
sense of spirituality that both grounds the characters and lifts them
up.
Merging
with Monsters
will appeal to anyone who liked Six Feet Under ... except that
Green’s book is better in my opinion. What makes Merging With
Monsters
truly unique is the generosity of vision with which Green sees his
characters. Read this book. Turn off your phone, cancel your
engagements and read slowly. This writing is something that you will
want to savor. At the same time, you will want to race through the book
to find out the answers. Fight that desire and read slowly. Merging
with Monsters will give you a new appreciation for the world around
you and the grace within us all.
The
ending was a total
surprise.
With his ending, Joseph Eugene Green has given his reader the same
shocking generosity of insight that he has given his characters.
Perfect!
