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About Anthony Caplan  Anthony Caplan is an independent writer, teacher and homesteader in northern New England. He has worked at various times as a shrimp fisherman, environmental activist, journalist, taxi-driver, builder, window-washer, and telemarketer. Currently, Caplan is working on restoring a 150 year old farmstead where he and his family tend sheep and chickens, grow most of their own vegetables, and have started a small apple orchard from scratch. You can find him at http://www.anthonycaplanwrites.com/ Latitudes A Story of Coming Home

Latitudes Book Tour  Anthony Caplan, author of the young adult novel, Latitudes: A Story of Coming Home is guest posting at WV Stitcher on Tuesday, September 04, 2012 about his favorite books. Caplan is on virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book   during September to talk about his book, the writing life and his future projects. About Latitudes: A Story of Coming Home  LATITUDES – A story of one boy overcoming dysfuntion, dislocation and distance… When Father and Mother, a highflying young American lawyer and his party-hard bride, fall prey to the self-destructive lure of alcohol and sexual liberation, Will and his sisters pay the price in divorce and kidnappings that take them back and forth between the rain forest hideaways of coastal Latin America and the placid suburbs of Long Island. Will identifies with the oppressed workers laboring in his father’s fast food restaurant and longs for American freedom. Father remarries the daughter of a local aristo...