20 SOMETHINGS - WOULD YOU DATE SOMEONE 40 YEARS OLDER THAN YOU?

How about someone of a different race? Don't answer that until you have read this book...

Few books have examined issues of race, age, and other 'isms' as closely and from such a personal viewpoint as The Gods Laughed.

Monica is a lovely and brilliant young black woman from Philadelphia, just starting out in a new career and ready to take on the world. Paul, a white man forty years her senior, has just retired after a lifetime as a hardnosed New York newspaper editor. This unlikely pair find themselves to be the only two survivors of a terrible plane crash, and stranded on a remote island.

They must overcome their own prejudices, find strength in each other, and ultimately find something in themselves they didn't know existed. In doing so, they discover worlds about each other they may never have known back in "civilization". They also find a haunting and beautiful love affair that may never have come to exist except on this island.

The Gods Laughed is given a depth unmatched by most multicultural love stories by virtue of being written by two authors, who have breathed life into their characters from their own experiences. The Gods Laughed is not a fairy tale about how people should get along. It is a story of the discoveries of two people who become desperately important to one another. The Gods Laughed is a book for everyone - those who believe in the power of love and those who don't, those who see through differences and those who don't.

No matter who you are, The Gods Laughed will make you rethink what you believe.

About the authors:

Kaya Casper is 25 years old, the editor of an online magazine, and an often published poet and short story writer. The Gods Laughed is her first full length work, and she has brought a unique perspective to this insightful love story.

Rick White is a retired newspaper and magazine editor, and the author of hundreds of short stories and articles. Now in his sixties, he has launched a new career as a novelist and has published two historical novels in the past two years, with a third in the works.