Heaven Help Us All, by Moose Eliot
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In "Heaven Help Us All," novelist Moose Eliot looks at the organized violence we call war through multiple lenses. As the American nation lurches toward the Gulf War during the autumn of 1990, therapist Marjorie Llewellyn labors to help traumatized Vietnam veterans, while struggling with a tragic legacy of PTSD at the heart of her own family. Meanwhile Gary Devers, a refugee from the U.S. Foreign Service, faces the existential dilemma of a thinking man’s response to the persistence of massed, armed confrontation against all reason, while pursuing a radiant vision of personal happiness with Marj. With war looming ever closer, Marj’s mother must deal with the still unhealed wound of the untimely death of Colonel Llewellyn, a Vietnam-era bomber pilot, and the prospect of Marj’s brother Bob’s deployment, as a Marine reservist, to the deserts of Kuwait. Add the backdrop of the nation’s capital, a tribal society of bicycle messengers, and the mysterious disappearance of Charles Pinckney, a model of PTSD recovery whose quirky acts of street theater speak simple truth to power, and you have an extended meditation on the tragedy of war, and on the consequences of its pursuit, insidious and pervasive, that none of us can escape.
Heaven Help Us All, by Moose Eliot- Published on: 2015-05-27
- Released on: 2015-05-27
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From Kirkus Reviews “This novel, a poignant mediation on the emotional wages of war, captures the suffering felt by veterans and the people who love them. Set in the early 1990s, Eliot’s deftly told novel is haunted by war and geopolitical tumult. The Berlin Wall crumbled, the Cold War recently sped to a sudden conclusion, Nelson Mandela has finally tasted freedom and the U.S. military is poised for a massive invasion of Iraq. Marjorie Llewellyn, a therapist at the Capitol Center for Psychic Wellness in Washington, D.C., spends her life in the thicket of trauma war has produced. She often counsels Vietnam veterans roiled by unpleasant remembrances of combat. She also suffers from the effects war has had and may still have on her life: Her father, a veteran, died prematurely, and it looks increasingly likely her younger brother will be deployed for Desert Shield. Everything changes when she’s assigned a new patient at the clinic, Gary Devers, who frustrates her with his cryptic “intellectualizing of trauma” but also compels her to reflect more profoundly on her own nagging sense of loss. “When Gary was here it began to make sense,” she says. “I could feel that stone of my father glowing warmer when we were together. It was as if there were a stone in him that glowed with a similar warmth, and the two stones were happy when they were together.” The entire narrative is couched within a meta-narrative of the book’s publication: Marjorie’s son, Arturo, sends the 15-year-old manuscript to a literary agent who immediately senses its artistic merit. The prose often strikes a poetic note, highlighting an intelligent treatment of grief…” “A touching, philosophical meditation on the psychological fallout from war.” --Kirkus Reviews
About the Author Moose Eliot is the author of the eco-fiction novel "Tanaki on the Shore" (under the name Bill Smith) and of the novel "Be True to Your Tribe" (not currently available). He is a native of the Washington, DC area, and now lives in the Southern Appalachian mountains.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. To Slay the Minatour By Richard Smith Heaven Help Us AllHeaven Help Us All is a report – written by Marj Llewellyn, a “wounded healer” – to her supervisor at the Capitol Center for Psychic Wellness where Marj counsels Vietnam vets recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In her personal life, Marj is haunted by the loss of her father, a “victim” of the Vietnam War. She struggles to sustain her desperate mother who is terrified by the prospects of “another Vietnam”– the Gulf war of 1991 – and who having lost a husband to war, now faces the prospect of losing a son. Marj mediates between her mom and reservist brother whose seemingly “devil may care” attitude hides a concern for the future and exacerbates the heartache of his family. To further complicate her life, Marj struggles to find a satisfying relationship in the face of love gone bad.Into this world comes Gary, a client seeking his way out of a Vietnam War malaise. Gary, a grad school dropout, works as a bicycle courier for a company founded by Charles Pinckney, a recovered PTSD victim and Marj’s “mentor” in the formative days of her work with the veterans.As Marj tries to make sense of the complex and elusive Gary, he confides that Charles has disappeared, then abruptly leaves the session saying that if she wants to see Charles she should be at Farragut Square at ten o’clock Wednesday morning. Against her professional judgement and the direct advice of her boss, Marj is drawn to the park and to the strange event that occurs there – a bizarre poetry-reading memorial for a courier who stepped in front of a bus for unrequited love.Farragut Square becomes a Dantesque gateway (sans inscription) through which Marj enters into a labyrinthine search, not just to find the missing Charles, but for a way to cope with the death of her father, for a means of bringing her mother out of a spiraling depression, for insight that will help her and her clients grapple with the awful effects of war, and for a loving relationship – a foundation on which to establish her wavering life.Moose Elliot weaves an intriguing tale and at each twisting turn of the maze, Marj, Gary, and their fellow seekers catch fleeting glimpses of vague specters disappearing in the distance. Without Ariadine’s thread to guide them, they travel through the obscurity, hoping eventually to find Charles, and in the process to kill the Minotaur – war – and inherit the peace and love promised by the 60's generation, for themselves and for humanity.Remember, this is Marj’s story – she tells it – and the issues she confronts at the start must be resolved – the unsettling way her father died, her mother’s debilitating terror, her brother’s journey into war, the agony induced by the shared stories of the vets, and the freedom of a grounding and intimate relationship.This is also Moose Elliot’s story, told in his inimitable style. The various elements of his multi-level plot are carefully presented in ways that keep you turning pages to see where he will take you next. As he writes, Elliot also pulls aside the curtain to unveil, hidden in dark corners, the way war politics are played out. But Elliot understands that war is a complex affair – not a matter of black and white – and quotes St. Augustine’s words: "love sometimes requires force to protect the innocent."So, underlying Marj’s story, there is a fundamental message about all forms of violence and its profound and prolonged affects on individuals and society. By the end, you may be ready to say with Utah Phillips, “I’m already against the next war.”
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