A Love Enveloped

Abstract

A Love Enveloped is a historical fiction novella about a son’s recount and search for an answer to his inquietude. Knowing little about his father, who died in World War I, he pieces together scattered memories from his youth with his mother—a recluse absorbed in her painting. It is only when a young woman disrupts their quiet lives with information about his father that the son is compelled to cross the Atlantic in search of answers. The story explores the arbitrariness of existence and the human compulsion to find meaning, regardless of the evidence. The novella reveals how individuals construct narratives as a matrix to reconstruct their past and, in doing so, gain a sense of unity and purpose. A type of love is presented through the narrator’s compulsion to retell the stories he is told and the stories he tells himself.