Leaving Losapas begins on a tiny atoll in the equatorial Pacific.
Leo Markin, a young US Marine and Vietnam combat veteran who
survived the war, found himself so changed by the experience that
he simply could not find a way to return to his home, family, and
his fiancee in a working class city of his birth outside of Boston.
The islanders in Losapas are kind to him-he had been living there
for years-and he had found a woman he came to love. Various events
conspire to convince him to return to America, but on his return
home he feels lost. He has troubling encounters with his aging
father, finds that his fiancee has married another man and appears
trapped in an abusive relationship, and his old friends seem like
strangers to him. Leo is torn between the peaceful, natural way of
life on the island, and the rougher rules of his upbringing. In the
end, though he has sworn to turn his back on physical violence, it
is an act of physical violence that convinces him the only place he
can live is Losapas. When his father suddenly dies, Leo decides to
leave the house he inherits to his former fiancee-thus encouraging
her to leave her husband-and he returns to the life he left behind
and to his island lover. Boston Magazine called Leaving Losapas a
"great surprising book...the best novel of the year..." and The
Rocky Mountain News said "it's a wondrous, spiritually rich
story...Merullo has created something of beauty...Leaving Losapas
will linger in your mind long after you close its pages."
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