MONKEY TEMPLE

Monkey Temple is a coming-of-old-age adventure about two longtime best friends and rivals who, determined to “not go gentle into that good night,” set off on a final road trip.  Their efforts to face past failures and give meaning to their dwindling futures change their lives forever but not at all as they had envisioned.  It’s a buddy story with strong female characters and plenty of dark humor.

"Peter Gelfan’s Monkey Temple is a rollicking journey down a winding road to a dubious paradise. I took a lot of pleasure in it. So familiar, the riffs and issues and experiences and characters—talkin’ ’bout my generation—and I reveled in so many of the choices the author made in rendering them. Rich in insight and humor, it is, in the end, a story about stories themselves." — Tony Cohan, bestselling author of On Mexican Time

Paperback: 312 pages
Publishing date: January 28, 2019
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1-949180-98-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-949180-98-5
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches

Peter Gelfan was born in New York City, grew up in New Haven and the New York City suburbs, and attended Haverford College until he turned on, tuned in, and dropped out. He has traveled widely and lived in Spain, England, Florida, and Vermont. Found Objects, his debut novel, was published in 2013. He co-wrote the screenplay for Cargo, les Hommes Perdus, which was produced and released in France in 2010. He lives in New York City, where he continues to write and work as a freelance book editor.