Lost and Found in the Streets of Rome

Image by Anita Austvika.

This past March, I traveled to Rome to accept an award for my recently published novel, The Accidental Jesus. The event would cap this year’s international competition for literary fiction sponsored by the Pegasus Foundation.

The book is set in San Pedro, California, and dramatizes how the protagonist—who resembles the historical Jesus and struggles with his Catholic faith—is taken for Jesus himself when he returns to his hometown for a high school reunion.