A Leap in the Dark

"It was just going to be the next job." So begins "A Leap in the Dark", the debut novel by writer and poet Matt Frati in which we meet his alter-ego Paul Medina, who at 22 is starting yet another dead end, manual labor job and contending with despotic bosses, annoying coworkers and customers, all the while trying to be a writer and find his own way into the literary world. It's at this latest job where he meets a mysterious woman and leaps head first into a brief but important relationship that alters the course of his previously ordinary life, both on and off the page.