My novel, Crossing the Bridge, is in some ways about an event that affected the life of my protagonist Hugh so completely that ten years later he still hasn’t been able to move on from it. The event -- the death of his brother in a car accident -- was a deeply traumatic one. However, the real impact of the event came from how he dealt with it. Choosing to run from the pain, he took to an itinerant life, never staying in one town or in one relationship for more than a year. As
