The Ark of Manhattan

Nobody's jealous of David's life.

He's worked the same dead-end job for years, riding the same grimy subway to the same shoe box they call an apartment, just to listen to his girlfriend yell at him about something he did wrong. He just wants something in his life to mean something.

One day walking home, he finds a book in front of his apartment door. While littering is common in their building, he's more likely to find beer cans and razor blades than anything of value. It isn't just any book, though. It's a colorful, children's picture book, depicting scenes from the bible.

Even though he's not a religious person and has no plans to be, David sets off on a hunt to see who left it there to find out whether it was a strange, purposeful gift of destiny or a random happenstance. Meanwhile, he starts to develop a fixation with a particular scene on the last page, and the next logical step, at least to him, is to build a replica of Noah's Ark in his eleventh story apartment in New York City.

Running into obstacles in his search for the original owner, he isn't convinced he'll find out who, but he has to try, while conflict arises when the crafting project turns both more random and larger than he anticipates. When his girlfriend finds out what it's turning into, things only get more complicated.