Ohio Story

About the Book

An upscale but psychologically impaired Jewish woman assumes a position as a foreign language instructor at a prominent Midwestern university in the mid-60’s before obtaining her undergraduate degree. She becomes sexually entangled with one of her students and ingratiates herself with a hate group simultaneously in order to direct a menacing wrath against her own people. Planning for and committing crimes, intense litigation and a final moral awakening highlight the many complex characters tightly bound together by myriad circumstances irregular in the academe. Unusual in its plot lines, and at times caustically viewing the idiosyncrasies of Ohio’s people, Ohio Story at its core articulates the motivations for power, lust, wealth, control, justice, rectitude, vision, redemption and the depths of moral depravity necessary to fulfill a diabolical agenda.

About the Author

Simon Noel is a lawyer with offices in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He lives with his wife and yellow lab in Omaha. Ohio Story is his first novel, and in part draws upon observations from his university days in Ohio, where he obtained a semblance of command over the English language.