Here's the synopsis I am using with publishers. What are your thoughts?
How To Lose Your
Voice Without Screaming explores, with both
humor and sensitivity, what can happen when you repress a big, terrible secret.
...Kingsley Kuchner is a single private business owner living quietly in the
Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1960’s. His life is an empty routine and,
though his thoughts are often occupied with Martha, the spirited and exotic
woman who lives next door, he is very much alone. Also, he’s haunted by a disembodied voice. Each day this voice tells him the same story.
The voice begins its story, then finishes it and begins again. This has been going on for 20 years, and
now the voice is growing louder...
At
the suggestion of a neighbor, Kingsley meets with a psychiatrist of
questionable repute who advises him to write this story out and, "however seemingly impossible,"
attempt to have it published. Only by doing this, Kingsley is led to believe,
will he lose the voice and find true happiness, perhaps even love. Kingsley
writes out the story and at the insistence of a publisher finds himself reading
it on a popular prime-time broadcast. It is at this moment that he realizes
there is something very very special about his cryptic little story. Within
minutes of unleashing it upon the American public, the course of his life, the
lives of four others and, indeed,
American culture are altered irrevocably. As his life spins out of control
Kingsley begins to suspect that what he has shared with the world might not be
as whimsical or innocuous as he had thought. Finally, with the help of the
former society darling, the disgraced Doctor Flees, Kingsley begins a journey
of discovery that uncovers a series of truths that are more beautiful and
terrifying, and much more dangerous, than he could have ever
imagined.
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