Phantoms & Gargantuans — David Xavier

Phantoms & Gargantuans is a stunning new novel which fearlessly explores the greatest adventure to ever face humanity: the human heart.The world of mankind is filled with Phantoms & Gargantuans.John Capp is a stagehand behind the scenes of the nation's biggest theatre production. His parents are gone, his brother is struggling, his longtime friend is a wild roadie with the production, and he falls for one of the actresses who revives his own passions of creativity. However, when he discovers who the actress really is, and his brother takes a turn for the worse, things begin to unravel fast and he escapes on the road with the show and finds himself an accomplice and passenger on a dark cultural phenomena.Along the way he experiences the losses and loves, the hidden torments and passions, the sufferings and dreams that consume us, death and grief, the dangerous pit we all circle on the path to meaning, and the mysterious physical world we inhabit.Never before a novel so moving and powerful, Phantoms & Gargantuans stands alone as literary fiction's most memorable story in a long time!