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***WINNER – IPPY Bronze Book Award – Best Regional Fiction (2009)
***WINNER – BookBundlz Best Book (2009-2010 Winter Award)

The Hierophantof 100th Street is a remarkable, unusual book: a metaphysical novel set in a violentworld of slums, gangs, and prisons. Drawing on the author’s experience of growingup in the infamous East Harlem neighborhood of 100th Street in the 1960s, the storyfollows 17-year-old Adam Kadman and his 9-year-old brother John through their respectiveinitiations into the realities of street life while simultaneously introducing real-lifecharacters who dwell in the life of the spirit.

Veiled in the guise of fiction,most of what appears in the book is actually a truthful account of the author’s the author, the young Adam also ventures out from the slums ofNew York to discover the meaning of life amid the horrors of existence, and findsromance, mysticism, and purpose.

Seeking to extricate himself from 100th Street,Adam is drafted into the army and later travels to Egypt, where in a harsh worldof theocrats and misogynists he falls in love with a young Arab woman. Out of hiselement, he attacks the social structure—and ends up running for his life. He returnsback to the old neighborhood only to find it changed … destroyed by an invasion ofdrugs, betrayal, and murder.

By chance he encounters a mysterious man, CliffordBias (a renowned twentieth-century clairvoyant), and is taken under the wing of the”magus.” Discovering his own psychic abilities, Adam enters his mentor’s secret societyand a world of mysticism and love. Tapping the same rich spiritual vein as The DaVinci Code and The Celestine Prophecy and written in the stark language of the streets,this daring, cinematic novel explores the ancient truths and metaphysical mysterieshidden in the fabric of everyday life.