NFB Publishing announces the release of Eric Jackson-Forsberg’s debut novel, The Spiral. The book is available on amazon.com and through NFB’s website at nfbpublishing.com.
“The Spiral draws on my own process of discovery as curator of a Wright house,” says Jackson-Forsberg. “It’s a meditation on sublimity and the futility of finite knowledge, exploring themes of personal, professional and spiritual doubt.”
The story’s central character, Holden Maddox, is a curator haunted by his pursuit of the truth. His esoteric study of Frank Lloyd Wright design and his attempts to sort out his shadowy, small-town past are irresistible obsessions. Driven by a desire to reconstruct his personal history and forge a future for himself, Holden is drawn into a mystery surrounding two pieces of art glass, artifacts with convoluted roots much older and deeper than he knows. Uncanny forces—from the far reaches of the solar system to the Brooklyn Bridge—complicate the quest in ways that defy his imagination, test his resolve and bend the laws of physics.
While the novel relies on Wright’s designs and the shadow of his character, it does so in a new way, distinguishing it from books like T.C. Boyle’s The Women based on the salacious circumstances of Wright’s personal life. The book should appeal to those fascinated with Wright and his work, as well as those interested in the occult and the pursuit of sublimity, from architecture to astrophysics.
Born and raised in the North Country of New York, Jackson-Forsberg received his BA from Hamilton College with a concentration in Creative Writing and an MA in Art History from the University at Buffalo. For nine years, he served as curator for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House complex, contributing to books such as Frank Lloyd Wright Art Glass of the Martin House. He and his family have lived in Boston, Buffalo and Brooklyn, and now call Chautauqua County home.
