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The village of Godiche in France's Vend e Province is celebrating the summer solstice, as they have done for centuries. Gay couple Alex and Laurent are hosting an odd gathering of friends and family in their restored manor house. When a fully-loaded A380 explodes above their manor house, the resulting confusion and horror is the catalyst for love as well as loss.

Hamilton is not the usual expat American in France. He is a wealthy teacher at an international school in Paris, and his best friend, Emma, is married to the son of a famed French family. However, everything changes in the blink of an eye when Hamilton's family unexpectedly appears in Paris, to celebrate Emma's birthday.

Set in Paris in 1928 The Inevitable Perfidy is a novel about the social volcano of Paris and how a young man from Amherst, Massachusetts nearly gets lost in the eruption of indiscretion, dishonesty, love, sex, and literature. Franklin is a blond, blue-eyed gay New Englander who takes a sabbatical and finds himself living in Paris of the jazz age. He meets everyone from F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, King Vidor, James Joyce, Archibald MacLeish, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, and many others. At the heart of the novel is strait-laced Franklin's astonishing love triangle, in which he learns the obvious truth that sex is not love and, as Gertrude Stein says, "It's not how you write it. It's how you remember it." Josephine Baker lurks on the periphery of the novel, as she becomes friendly with one of Franklin's lovers, the banker Xavier, and offers sage advice.

Maureen and Bertha Callahan are competitive sisters in a dysfunctional family in 1932 Riverside, California, whose relationship is made even more complex by Maureen's unique perspective and behaviors (guided by what today might be called autism). Into their world, launches handsome Cuthbert, the disgraced scion of a wealthy New York family. Though he becomes part of the Callahan social circle when he begins a painting of the family house, Cuthbert is ever more entangled in it when he finds love with a young man who has been riding the rails from San Antonio, Texas. Though Underneath the Quiet hurtles toward a culminating grand party, a rifle, and a double murder, Mark Albro has not written just a twisty family drama but an exploration of life on the autism spectrum, a historical novel about sometimes surprising social norms, and a love letter to a vanishing Southern California, where wonderful orange groves are being replaced by cookie-cutter tract houses.

Maureen and Bertha Callahan are competitive sisters in a dysfunctional family in 1932 Riverside, California, whose relationship is made even more complex by Maureen's unique perspective and behaviors (guided by what today might be called autism). Into their world, launches handsome Cuthbert, the disgraced scion of a wealthy New York family. Though he becomes part of the Callahan social circle when he begins a painting of the family house, Cuthbert is ever more entangled in it when he finds love with a young man who has been riding the rails from San Antonio, Texas. Though Underneath the Quiet hurtles toward a culminating grand party, a rifle, and a double murder, Mark Albro has not written just a twisty family drama but an exploration of life on the autism spectrum, a historical novel about sometimes surprising social norms, and a love letter to a vanishing Southern California, where wonderful orange groves are being replaced by cookie-cutter tract houses.