Through two main relationshipswith his troubled brother and a woman he meets on a cross-country hitchhiking adventure after graduating from high schoolAdam confronts who he is as a man, a friend, a sibling, and an artist. He hasnt spent all those lonely hours practicing, writing, and recording for nothing.
Between a sense of insecurity and the rock and roll fantasy, life happens, both the pleasure and the pain. Ultimately, Adam accepts his life on its own terms, working, practicing, and forging ahead. Through years of artistic dedication enacted mostly in solitude, What Goes Around builds to a finale that incorporates a good deal of what Adam has been working toward. Its all about acceptance. Adam learns to keep the negative impulses at bay, to keep going, to keep creatingbecause lifes struggles are always going to be there.
David Siegel is a writer and musician who lives with his family on Long Island. This is his first novel.