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We believe what we need to believe in order to make sense of what we're seeing. No one is an exception. The differences among us arise in how this common bond manifests itself in individuals, how we're each trying to deal with our rationales that have become inconsistent with any or all of our other rationales.
Why do a few people seem completely immune to experiencing a midlife crisis; but better yet, why are most of us so able to view ourselves as surely being a part of this minority? This is one of the illusions you do not want to be knocked from its orbit; then you might know where you really are.

Mr. Horn's childhood habitat is Greenwich Village, where the ghosts of all things Past remain somehow always in sight, to varying degrees. Ambling about his old neighborhood, for really the first time since he graduated from High School, it all still feels so familiar, so snug and homey to him, that he'd never guess he's just struck out onto "Tendaberry Pier", or what this may mean.
It's so easy to live in a moment forever, only to later forget you were ever there. We do so every day, due precisely to the "it could never happen to me" thinking. Well, what else "can't happen"? This is New York City. And, is 2012 indeed the aurora of a New Age coming? Well, maybe it's all in just how you look at it. Maybe. How strong is your power of Denial? There does come a time when you'll discover certain question's answers more definitely than you wanted to, as you know you'll never again see Life or yourself through the kaleidoscope of those old precious illusions, after you do.
Mr. Horn's losing his ability to withstand admitting to himself not only that he's not as dispassionate as he once was, or at least viewed himself as being, but that, in fact his passions have become his aegis, a combination of all of his once disparate coping mechanisms. He's got problems at work, like everyone, but that's one place where he's consistently wielded the power of a superstar. He can't recall a time when he wasn't able to mold a problem into some opportunity. Therefore, his quandary essentially arises from his not being one to blame everyone else, failure is only Success' avoided ugly cousin; but also from his not being one to play his own antagonist.
Passion is weakness, for our protagonist. Can strength not be found there, though? Is weakness failure, anyway? Things have perhaps deteriorated too far for Horn over the course of 2011 for any possible altered perspective he could theoretically attain to bring him true relief, but hopefully if you're experiencing self-doubt, you're doing so THIS year. The whole world is in there with you, now.

By turns stark, or painful, satirical, and just plain funny, this initial effort by Tabanayan "Ya Ya" Yates is thrillingly honest and pleasingly thought-provoking. Ya Ya's consistently incisive and intelligent natural expression forms the bowl this novel is poured into. The snappy dialogue, engaging insightful and imaginative story-telling, paints a picture of New York so real that it tastes like you're right up the lanes and alleys, and out in the parks and bars with these characters.
In part an homage to Laura Nyro, and in large part a paean to New York City, Tendaberry Pier will illuminate even the recessed back rooms and the front hallways of your mind as a rollicking epiphany, in the kind of staggered waves that grow as they go.

The 37 Chapters of Tendaberry Pier will be published sequentially, usually once per week, occasionally ever other week, over the course of 52 Sundays running, until December 23, 2012. Chapter Two, when Gina opens her Future to find an old friend standing there, will be available on January 8; and as a freebie until January 12.

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