Have you felt that you were born in a wrong place and time -- that you belong to another world? Your feeling may explain humanity's fascination with Atlantis. The land almost surely never existed in the form in which Plato described it, but the dream it's awoken in some of us lives on.

That dream can inspire a quest for meaning, a quest for kindred souls, a quest for a place where one belongs, a quest for ancient wisdom letting us live well in the present day -- a quest for raising the foundered land anew. Quest underlies the action of An Exile from Atlantis, a novel of kindred souls trying to live their visions of the Lost Land in remote parts of America in the last half of the Twentieth Century.

Fred, the initiate, lives a life uniquely his own, yet familiar to all who lived in those places at those times. Amber, the mystagogue, is a mixture of the familiar and the mystical -- a sage with wisdom hidden to the rest of us, yet a troubled soul struggling with problems common to all of us. Fred and Amber's dance through time marks out a path to enlightenment unique to them, but common to the world.

Fred and Amber's quests take place, not on a fantastic landscape of castles and jousting fields, but in everyday life. School, socialization, work, church, marriage, and child-rearing can be mundane or magical depending on the lens you view them through. After all, these institutions and activities existed in Atlantis, didn't they? Isn't part of Atlantis' lure that its inhabitants lived in ways that we envy and yearn to emulate? Wasn't it a land blessed by the gods who made it? Venturesome souls can perhaps rediscover an Atlantean way of life that can clothe the ordinary in wonder.

Still, even Atlantis was touched with tragedy. Fred and Amber's quest takes them through darkness to the light -- through darkness unique to each of them to a light that they can share. Fred and Amber seek that light by following paths that diverge and then converge -- paths filled with stumbling, reverses, and sorrows. Through persistence, will they prevail, reaching a goal that'll reward their quest? Only from the end is the beginning clear.

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