Years ago, Jes and Shyla Croft spent their honeymoon at Lake Serene in the Oregon wilderness.

Now the estranged couple has returned to what was once a magical place so they can legally put an end to their fatally flawed marriage. The love that once completed them died under the demands of Jes’s business and Shyla’s loneliness. They’re ready to move on. To bury the memories.

They refuse to relive nights of glorious lovemaking or speak of what they once were certain would last forever. There will be no regret, no re-hashing the past. However, instead of quickly going their separate ways, they spend what they believe will be their final hours together doing something that once held special meaning for them—looking for wildlife for Shyla to photograph. No matter everything that went wrong between them, they will always share a love of nature.

Then Jes hands Shyla a document that might change everything.

“The foulmouthed George is a celebrity biographer who flamboyantly reinvents his subjects’ lives for his readers. All he says and does is equal parts clever and crushing, and he rarely lets up on his brother for being born mere minutes before he was. In contrast, Jay is a librarian and serial apologizer, envious of George’s good looks and his confidence as a gay man… Early on, George notes that ‘nonsense is the meaning of life,’ a welcoming nod to the good time that awaits readers.” Kirkus Reviews

Feeling strangely elated after a phone call arranged by his gay non-identical twin brother George (author of sensationally semi-fictional biographies of dead celebrities) in which he has agreed to spend an hour naked in bed with a stranger, 33-year-old Jay (assistant librarian, allegedly straight) embarks on a short, sharp journey of belated self-discovery. In the midst of a hot London summer’s explosive encounters, dramatic revelations and unfolding chaotic events, old brotherly antagonisms and contrasting mother issues return to the surface as various relationships form and then become fluid. And two years later, when at last the turmoil has settled and exciting things appear to lie ahead, a menacingly different version of the past is threatening to uncover a dangerous secret.

“a book of big, farcically dramatic moments” Kirkus Reviews

A satirical take on the multiplying ways in which art and the media, and even we ourselves in our daily interactions, are constantly blurring the line between fiction and fact, Reimagining Ben is also a tongue-in-cheek celebration of the trials and tribulations, triumphs and occasional absurdities, of our complex modern-day relationships and imperfect modern-day lives.

“In this lightly absurdist comedy, fraternal twin brothers find their lives upended by a narcissistic writer and exacerbated by their unresolved rivalry… A humorous and entertaining character study of two brothers besieged by the preposterous.” Kirkus Reviews

“reminiscent of the work of Samuel Beckett, with a sprinkling of Seinfeld… disorienting… frenetic… unsettling… dizzying… unique in its sensibility and in the highly unusual events and interactions explored, while also giving a nod to past absurdist authors.” Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize