Kevin Lydy

Against The Hum Kevin Lydy

Against The Hum sets out with the basic premise that life is noisy. That voluminous backdrop shapes the lives of characters in ten stories, all of whom are straining to hear the frequency of their own souls. In This Side Of Midnight, Diana Christopher's pursuit of happiness rings hollow. Her drive to seek out something better proves costly. Damon Moore, in Silencing Helicopters, has a clamorous past for which he has paid dearly. Hope arrives from the soothing source of someone he never knew existed. Childhood friends in Third Act have come together again, the blaring sounds made by others driving them to the same fork in the road. As with all of the stories, the journeys are wide and filled with clattering bumps along the way. Progress is measured in single steps and jarring events that propel characters towards a quiet destiny of self-realization or defeat.