Ambrosia - Ann Benson
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Literature
By night Regina Bugbee runs an outreach center near Bellevue Hospital for men who dont trust the regular shelter system, providing a safe, warm place for these forgotten souls. By day she cares for the impaired man who would have been her husband had he not been badly injured running toward - not away - from the collapse of the Twin Towers. She struggles through this complex, tangled life, aching to reclaim the impossibly blue sky of that day - five years before - when the future arrived. But clarity eludes her, until one day the future arrives again. This time its in the form of a baffling stranger claiming to be, of all things, a Greek god, who is brought to her center by cops after a fight with one of her regulars. But hes too clean, too sober, and too articulate to fit the usual mold; hes odd and quirky and - fascinating. And despite the disapproval of her coworkers, friends and therapist, she digs into him to try to solve his mysteries., She enlists the aid of another client, who
