Bachelor of Arts

A year after graduation, former lacrosse all-American Norman DeCamp has become another aimless, underemployed Millennial, living with his parents and reminiscing about the glory days of college. Suddenly, within a few bewildering weeks, his life totally changes. He gets involved in a homicide, lands what he thinks is a dream job, and is thrown into the middle of an international fraud—all the while seducing and being seduced by a beautiful but desperately needy woman who is struggling with a crisis of her own. Trapped in a maelstrom of lust, guilt, duty, and compassion, the philosophically rootless Norman turns to a Nepalese Buddhist and a Christian evangelical to find a path out. In doing so, he confronts his own nihilism and the ultimate question of life’s meaning.

A year after graduation, former lacrosse all-American Norman DeCamp has become another aimless, underemployed Millennial, living with his parents and reminiscing about the glory days of college. Suddenly, within a few bewildering weeks, his life totally changes. He gets involved in a homicide, lands what he thinks is a dream job, and is thrown into the middle of an international fraud—all the while seducing and being seduced by a beautiful but desperately needy woman who is struggling with a crisis of her own. Trapped in a maelstrom of lust, guilt, duty, and compassion, the philosophically rootless Norman turns to a Nepalese Buddhist and a Christian evangelical to find a path out. In doing so, he confronts his own nihilism and the ultimate question of life’s meaning.

Rafe Colflesh was raised in Philadelphia where he attended public school and haunted Boat House Row as a teenage member of Vesper and Malta Boat Clubs. Educated in Europe and the United States, he returned to America and worked in journalism, education, and the law before becoming a writer. The father of two daughters and a son, he resides with his wife Elizabeth in southern New Jersey and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Bachelor of Arts is his first published novel. A second, Aaron’s Honor, is due in the autumn of 2016.