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A world of Magical Realism greets Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.’s saga, Xortal! The novel proceeds at a riveting pace with a tale of cave exploration, sudden disappearances, battles, and romantic interludes. Swords, clubs, and body tubes! Hidden chests, ancient scripts, and zizterrays! Characters we love and love to hate. Follow the humans at Tenlakes with their sentient horses and furry triads, and fightmutans, warts, mad Markman, and the evil Marloth. Add romance and danger to this adventure, and we are thrilled and chilled!

In his latest novel, Markman's Cave, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. draws us into the further adventures of the humans Marna, Elan, and Martin as they leave their home in the village of Tenlakes.

Markman's Home is a journey in modern Magical Realism. Using multiple narrative accounts with a mix of history, philosophy, story, and essay, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. blends the present and past with a possible future after the world's destruction. The action takes place in familiar settings, fertile plains, palisades of stone towering above rivers, caves, waterfalls, and trees. Freedom against tyranny and slavery are at stake when humans turn against their own kind. They control Warts, wolf-like packs of wild dogs, and Mutans, human variants seeking to rise and dominate.

"But how do I get in?" The narrator asks himself, just as Alice did before she followed the White Rabbit. In a similar land of magical realism, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. sets up an escapade in "a long thicket of trees separating two sloping farm fields". We hike with Tony beyond a fallen fence with twists of old barbed wire wrapping into the tree bark of the forest perimeter. Encountering "Buddha-like" images, muscular snakes that grasp at his clothing, and rotting fruits from Hedge Apple trees, Tony ventures further into the unknown forest.

Author of Markman's Home, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., has created characters as memorable as any in the realm of magic realism. Set in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1976, the writer recounts what-ifs with spectacular scenes in a rail yard, through hidden tunnels, and in old abandoned buildings. From the beginning when a visitor from another world pops up in a downtown Louisville ad agency, until the spectacular finale, the action ratchets up at a dizzying rate.