Luisa Domic is a novel of contempo-

rary good and evil--of family life and

the nurturing spirit invaded by political

terror and the specter of mass murder.

The story begins with the narrator,

his wife and three children living on a

Maine farm in the golden days of Octo-

ber. Into their household come three

visitors. The first is Harold Ashby, an

old friend, famous once as a composer,

who now works with autistic children.

His arrival is followed by Marshall Bet-

ringer, a political writer and activist,

who is traveling with a Chilean woman

named Luisa DomE, a mature woman

of gifts and personal power, numb with

suffering. The time is 1971. Luisa has

escaped from the infamous stadium in

Santiago where several thousands have

been executed by the new regime. Still

in a state of shock, she is being taken

to a sanctuary in Canada.