Exiles in America: A Novel
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Zack Knowles, a psychologist, and Daniel Wexler, an art teacher at a college in Virginia, have been together for twenty-one years. In the fall of 2002, a few months before the Iraq War, a new artist in residence, Abbas Rohani, arrives with his Russian wife, Elena, and their two children. But Abbas is not quite what he seems, and he begins an affair with Daniel. Soon politics intrude upon two families thrown together by love, threatening the future of both in ways no one could have predicted.
A novel that explores how the personal becomes political, Exiles in America offers an intimate look at the meaning of marriage, gay and straight.
Christopher Bram
Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels, including Father of Frankenstein, which was made into the Academy Award–winning movie Gods and Monsters, starring Ian McKellen. Bram grew up outside of Norfolk, Virginia, where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 and moved to New York City in 1978. In addition to Father of Frankenstein, he has written numerous articles and essays. His most recent book, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, is a literary history. Bram was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, and in 2003, he received Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at New York University.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The hype about this book and the review in LBR make it seem like the point of the book is the effect of an affair on a long-term gay male relationship. If you read the book for that reason, I think you'll be very disappointed, as the LBR reviewer was. This is a book about exiles: political exiles, self-made exiles, people who are exiled from their relationships, people who are exiled within their communities because of who they are. I thought it had a number of profound things to say about exile, how different people deal with it, and the kinds of things it makes people do.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A fine book, well-crafted and sensitive. The characters are those slightly-idealized versions of real people that only fiction can present; they are models to which we can compare ourselves. Which is, ultimately, what this book is about: it's about us. It asks us--explicitly at last, in the final few pages--to look inward at ourselves, at our own lives, and loves, and desires, and to judge ourselves fairly and honestly. I get the feeling that readers of this book will all see it slightly differently, because, looking inward, they will all discover something unique to themselves. At times, the metaphors can get cloying, the "know thyself" rhetoric a bit clumsy. But this is perhaps only an attempt to appeal to the less jaded among us--those who still enjoy a parable, even while recognizing its inadequacies. Bram comes from the same place as Tolstoy here, albeit a modernized version, well-schooled by modern liberalism and ubiquitous psychoanalysis. He has a point to make about the ways we live, now. This is a book that is intended to be Good For You. But he writes with honesty, craft, and abundant love. I was won over, despite my cynic's heart.