Once in Love with Amy

Ralph Bland's debut novel tells the story of Amy Martin and how her life and death affects five of her contemporaries. Told in first person narrative from multiple characters, the novel unfolds a rambling tale of how the recently deceased Amy is nowhere close to being dead and gone in the hearts and minds of the people left behind in her wake. Spanning her just-completed life, this novel is a slapstick tragedy and a bittersweet hike into the past, present, and future psyches of a group of people still struggling to get their acts together.