Sol Fitzgerald: Trauma, Anger, and Hope

How Sol Fitzgerald might appear. (Photo credit: unknown.)

Sol Fitzgerald is angry. A 24-year-old janitor at a private school, he's also an alcoholic. And he recently spent two years in prison for aggravated assault. All these characteristics and events are not his fault: they're the effects of sexual abuse he suffered from ages nine to twelve.

As a main character in my novel Crimes of Disrespect, Sol's  bubbling hostilities and criminal record put him on the suspect-list early in the investigation of a double murder. By necessity, he looks into the incident, in which he himself had found two bodies in the quadrangle of Woodmore Academy, the elite high school where he works.

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