Aignos Publishing Announces the Release of Robert Friedman's New Novel, "Island Wildlife"

HONOLULU - March 6, 2018 - PRLog -- The book is composed of interconnected stories about denizens of a beachfront guesthouse in Puerto Rico, circa 1987. The mostly off-beat characters who pass through the doors of the Solimar Guesthouse are trying to straighten out off-kilter lives; each has a unique story to tell about love, sexuality, survival. Island Wildlife looks with a canny, darkly humorous eye at the struggling humanity of its characters, while also exploring the Puerto-Rico/U.S. relationship, Cuban exile politics, and how the personal and political interrelate.

Robert Friedman was a reporter, columnist and city editor for the San Juan Star in Puerto Rico for more than 20 years, and was the newspaper's Washington correspondent until it folded in 2009. While in Puerto Rico, he was also a special correspondent for the New York Daily News. Friedman is the author of four published novels about Puerto Rico—The Surrounding Sea, Under a Dark Sun, Shadow of the Fathers and Caribbean Dreams. In his fiction, he has explored the colorful and often struggling lives of island residents who try to cope, both personally and politically, with the highly ambivalent relationship between the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Born and bred in the Bronx, New York, he now lives in Silver Spring, Md.

"The gritty situations faced by the rather weird, and sometimes heart-warming characters in the book," says Friedman, "are part of my ongoing journalistic effort to get to the gist of the truth about people and places through fiction."

ISLAND WILDLIFE: Exiles, Expats and Exotic Others
by Robert Friedman
290 pages - 5.25" x 8" Pocket Book - Color Softcover.
ISBN 978-0-9970020-7-2. Suggested retail price $16.95.
Released March 2018 by Aignos Publishing, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

This book is available directly from the publisher/printer at

https://mkt.com/savant-books-and-publications/item/island-wildlife

from Amazon.com at

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997002077

and at Savant Bookstore Honolulu (www.savantbookstorehonolulu.com) and other online and "brick and mortar" bookstores throughout the world.

Distributed by Savant Distribution (www.savantdistribution.com), this work is also available from other major distribution outlets including Amazon Extended Distribution and Ingram Books.

Aignos Publishing, an imprint of Savant Books and Publications, offers avant garde, experimental and inventive works that push the leading edge of all genres of fiction and non-fiction. For more information visit www.aignospublishing.com. Savant Books and Publications LLC is a publisher of enduring literature and media for the 21st Century. For more information visit www.savantbooksandpublications.com.