BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 16, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- In his hilarious satire of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Kenneth Smallwood brings the petty intrigues and conflicts of labor politics to life in his novel "The Right and The Left" (available from 1stBooks Library).
In Smallwood's novel, NLRB attorney Marshall Rosen organizes a union at the Montclair, N.J. field office. Three union adherents refuse to supervise the voting of oil tanker seamen in the Bermuda Triangle and are sent to the Far West to do bogus PR work. What hope is there for fairness when Director Lusignan, "has a theory that those engaged in oral sex are liberals and pro-union?" Liberals square off against conservatives and white supremacists, and the result is polarization. When Investigator Dero Ingleside is fired for having sex with a witness, things really fall apart!
Camelot Lane, former Woman of the Year, heads Justice's crime fighting unit investigating Lusignan's role in land speculation for the NJ Sports Complex, coordinating this with Ingelside's assignment. Camelot, an unmarried woman by choice, has a son fathered by civil rights leader Jacob Battle. Ideology makes them incompatible.
Smallwood brings many years of insider experience to the writing of "The Right and the Left." Smallwood also worked for the Civil Service Commission (now the Office of Personnel Management), SBA, the Department of Labor and the EPA. For the past twelve years he has worked as an investigator and human resources consultant. His career has involved work in twenty-four states. His short story, "Occupational Hazard," appeared in the Decade of Short Stories, and his story "Majority at Sea" was published in The Crisis magazine. He makes his home now in Southfield, Michigan, with his wife Lillian Marie.
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