Welcome Home, Sir

Caplan, Steve

Mar 2015 · Anaphora Literary Press

About this ebook

Dr. Ethan Meyer is a biochemistry professor conducting scientific research and teaching at an American academic institution. Outwardly, he is a poster-child for success; he runs his laboratory with efficiency and care, projects an air of confidence, and is highly respected. Inwardly, Ethan feels as though he is coming apart at the seams, as the post-traumatic stress disorder he incurred in the Israeli army spirals into a cycle of tortuous hypochondria and threatens to unravel his personal life. Through a series of darkly humorous flashbacks, he realizes how his own military service—the apparent cause of his current condition—has molded his character and contributed to his academic successes. While fighting his personal demons and struggling to keep his family together, Ethan must also navigate a series of crises at work—culminating with the dismissal of a foreign student for fabricating lab results. As the departure of his wife and child for Israel leave him with no choice but to up-the-ante in the struggle to control his hypochondria, Ethan comes to realize that his student may have been framed, and he races against time to search for the truth.

About the author

Dr. Steve Caplan was born in the US, spent his childhood in Canada and moved to Israel in 1983. He received a Bachelor of Science degree and both masters and doctoral degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1998, he moved to Rockville, Maryland, where he pursued post-doctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Caplan is currently a principal investigator and Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. He has won a number of prestigious awards for his research and mentorship and his laboratory is supported by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Caplan teaches graduate and medical students, and mentors his own group of PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. He is the author of numerous peer reviewed scientific papers, as well as several published short stories. His first novel, Matter Over Mind, received positive reviews and was a quarterfinalist in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. Welcome Home, Sir is his second novel. Dr. Anna Faktorovich is the Founder, Director, Designer and Editor-in-Chief of the Anaphora Literary Press and the Pennsylvania Literary Journal. She is an English Lecturer in composition and British literature at the Middle Georgia College in Cochran, GA. Last year she taught composition full-time at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Her first poetry collection, Improvisational Arguments, is coming out this summer, 2011 with Fomite Press (VT). Her first scholarly book, The Development of the Rebellion Novel Genre in 19th Century British Literature, is under revision for publication with McFarland. She has presented her research at the MLA, SAMLA, EAPSU, SWWC, BWWC and many other international conferences. She published critical essays, newspaper articles, fiction as well as her art work in literary magazines and academic publications. She won the MLA Bibliography and the Brown University Military Collection fellowships, as well as numerous travel and research grants. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism and an M.A. in Comparative Literature.