What’s THE E-POSTLE's story?
“Auctioning off a family homestead intertwines the lives of three lifelong friends amid 2006’s Internet culture, leading to self-reflections and potential personal changes.”
The Story/Blurb:
Evolving over three days, Jacob Bell’s Christmastime trip from London to his childhood home in Nashville is anything but a holiday visit. Two months earlier, he was with mom Abigail Bell and lifelong friend Patricia Goodwin—stargazing and handing out goodies to trick-or-treaters. Not today. Abigail has passed away, and Jacob must return home to deal with her estate—serving as a catalyst for self-reflection and potential major personal change.
THE E-POSTLE unfolds in 2006, in the midst of the newly-forming world wide whatever. Facebook is confined to college campuses, Twitter is in its infancy, and the iPhone is a year away. Millions still “dial into” the Internet. In London, Jacob is celebrated as a computer-coding god and given the nickname e-Zeus. On his commute to and from work, he’s questioning his participation in the 21st century’s “new, new thing.”
A graphic designer-turned-project manager, Patricia battles her bipolar disorder through the life, work, and artistic techniques of her favorite painter, Jackson Pollock. Their friend, Vinod Mehta is upset that he may be forced to sacrifice a company-promised sabbatical to Kumbh Mela, India’s largest religious festival.
Can Jacob journey successfully through an existential crisis and come to terms with life choices? Will Patricia navigate through a day of uncertainty and major personnel changes at her workplace—painting a life that may or may not include Jacob? And can Vinod complete his pilgrimage to India, and perhaps…along the way…aid his friends? THE E-POSTLE is an age-old story of friendship, love, and loss—a Southern story with global sensibilities.
(Above: Jacob’s/e-Zeus’s fictionalized hometown, somewhere between Music City and Lebanon, Tennessee.)