NATURAL LOVING is a seriously comic account of a sample few of the consequences we humans face when we take it for granted that, because love, in any of its morphs—including love of money, etc.—is “natural”, it needs neither shaping nor definition.
Central to its plot’s development is the love affair between an economist, Claudia, and a poet, Stafford, an affair which is nearly derailed by Claudia’s short affair with a sex-meister neurologist who knows nothing of the necessity for budgeting pleasure.
It concerns the success or failure of its characters to place limits on their passions and desires. Its principal characters include a rogue financier, an economist, a Catholic priest, a political scientist, a scholarly Rabbi, a poet and a Caribbean Island Weed-woman. In short, the novel is about human nature and human bodies.
NATURAL LOVING differs from almost all literary novels being written these days. Its characters are presented as acting primarily on what they think, rather than as more or less blindly reacting to social pressures or to personal history or merely to the demands of their blood chemistry.
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