LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: The Fountain of Youth by Steve Shear

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Determined to die with dignity, a retired neurosurgeon in a senior living facility battles the likelihood he will be the next victim of his family’s history of dementia.

The story is told as it is experienced through the eyes and journal of ROBERT GLICKMAN, who is in his mid-seventies and lives on the independent living floor of what is affectionately referred to as the Fountain of Youth.
Living within the shadow of his family’s dementia, every Sunday Glickman performs a particular “ritual” to monitor and stay ahead of the possibility he will be next and has established a “quick fix” if that becomes likely. In the meantime, he is embroiled in the lives of many of the other residents including his sister ESSIE, who like Glickman has an apartment on the Fountain’s independent living floor. The two siblings share a love-hate relationship, in part because Essie suffers from a narcissistic personality and in part because Glickman doesn’t. In the end it is Essie who needs the “quick fix” before her brother.

There is also HESTER, a server at the Fountain, and her big sister, RUTH WILSON, the front desk clerk. Ruth divulges to Glickman a horrific family secret that caused Hester to stop talking at the age of ten. She suffers from progressive mutism. Shortly after learning about the Wilson family secret, Glickman meets and instantly falls in love with CHRISTINA Abernathy, a retired psychotherapist, and an exceptionally beautiful woman. When they first meet, Glickman is convinced Christina is sleeping with his next-door neighbor BROWNSHER.

Christina agrees to try and help Hester with her mutism and after several therapy sessions Hester seems to be making great strides in her ability to speak simple sentences, that is, until she recognizes the perpetrator of her family secret on television.

While most everyone in the Fountain is Jewish including Glickman, one of his best friends there, BOYLE, is gentile, or so most of the residents believe because he speaks with a slight German accent and because he doesn’t use Yiddish when he curses. Indeed, there are some residents who believe that Boyle is secretly a Nazi, although Glickman has reason to believe he is a Holocaust survivor who refuses to talk about it. But is he really?

Through Boyle, Glickman becomes friendly with Stanley, Boyle’s eighteen-year-old grandson who goes by the name ‘Santini’ in the outside world. During their games of eight-ball in the Billiards room, Glickman learns that Santini is heavily involved in the dark side of the local community but is trying his best to break free. That’s when the FBI enters.

Glickman’s interest in Christina Abernathy, Hester’s mutism, Santini’s confrontation with the FBI, the discovery about Boyles true past, and Essie’s various personality disorders along with other memorable characters make for happy and sad commentaries in Glickman’s journal as he marches into old age knowing he has his finger on the way he plans to depart, and it’s not on the nursing floor two elevator stops down, or Hell as everyone upstairs calls it.

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