Tyrone and Myles
When Tyrone Odam suffers a massive stroke, it stir up his younger brother Myles’ childhood memories and events that led to their estrangement. Myles’ daily visits to the hospital allows the brothers to reconnect, leading to the revealing of family secrets, secrets withheld by their Aunt Josephine, a surrogate mother figure who had stepped in when the family court ruled their mother an incapable guardian. Myles begins to remember powerful incidents in his life in detail, from the violence his brother inflicted upon him and on their mother’s lover, to his own journey toward charitable services caring for the poor and dying. In the end, Tyrone dies without providing Myles with answers to questions about their life. Myles now faces a new solitary journey. Will he endure it?
Alban Kojima earned an M.A from Temple University and an M.S. in information science from Drexel University in Philadelphia. In 1988, he became Japanese Studies Informationist for Penn Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the same time he taught a graduate seminar entitled Japanese Studies Resources and Problems of Research. Since late-2012, Kojima has focused on writing. He has published in Tokyo, Japan, Yuzo Kayama and His Music: A Global Fascination (Sairyūsha, 2014), Alexie Sultanov (Alpha-Bater Books, 2027), Coal Boy (Gruernica Editions, 2023), and Tyrone and Myles (Guernica Editions, 2024). He lives in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
