The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living: A Novel

Martin Clark has created a cast of characters who come alive and are oddly believable in their actions during the course of this novel. The inhabitants of the story are mostly nonconformist and live for the moment. Judge Evers Wheeling, a pot smoker from Norton, North Carolina is approached by a pretty woman as he goes to work. The woman asks for a moment of his time. What transpires next could be a scene from the Andy Griffith TV show. The woman, Ruth Esther, insists on privacy and the couple end up in a vacant restroom in a local business. Evers thinks he's being set up and Ruth asks him to be lenient on her brother when he comes in front of the court. She admits to stealing $100,000. Her father was the mastermind but he died. She needs her brother for his part of where the money is hidden. She tells Wheeling that she'll split her share if he helps. Wheeling has a brother, Pascal who lives in a mobile home and is often high on pot. While Evers was diligent with his family inheritance, Pascal traveled and spent his money and doesn't have a care. The story relates the attempt to recover the money and the surprises that await them as they go along. We also follow the divorce attempt of Wheeling after he and the sheriff found Ever's wife and a farmer at a motel. Filled with amusing moments, this novel certainly entertains. the book is just right for those who enjoy unusual characters doing imponderable things.