Robert D. Young

Rex, the narrator of this novel, tries to overcome his strange beginnings and to escape the small town he was raised in to work his way up through the corporate and then the academic world. He and Rosy his wife discover travel, scuba diving, and sailing that take them to another world. But are they able to escape their past?

This book of short stories includes a broad range of subjects and themes from childhood to approaching death. From a boy coming to grips with an unusual family, to a boy growing to be a man, to a Tahitian man covering his body with tattoos, to an older man dying leaning against a cactus in Mexico. Pieces of Time.