KINDRED SPIRITS is the story of Arnold St. Clair, an aspiring writer in 1970s California with a lovely but quirky girlfriend. (Why wont she take off her shoes?) Its also the story of Alex Duval, a traveler in India with his own beckoning mysteries, chief of which is a new girlfriend who insists she and Alex were lovers in a previous life. Arnies and Alexs odysseys shuffl e them around the world and launch them back in time as they struggle toward an elusive place: knowing who they are and why things happen as they do.