Exiles in America - by Christopher Bram (Paperback)

About the Book

The author of "Gods and Monsters" and "The Notorious Doctor August" probes the dark depths of the human heart in this insightful and heartstopping novel that explores how the personal becomes the political. "Exiles in America "demonstrates the skill and imagination that have garnered Bram widespread critical acclaim.

From the Back Cover

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.

Review Quotes

"What is love?. . . [Bram's] enthralling . . . story challenges us to broaden our search for answers." - USA Today
"The predicaments Bram has set up for his characters are interesting . . . [and] compelling." - Washington Post Book World
"Bram displays a relaxed mastery of dialogue and captures the rich emotional state of a character in a few deft sentences. He nicely melds contemporary issues of gay rights, Christian fundamentalism, national security, and the difficulties of marriage." - Denver Rocky Mountain News
"Christopher Bram's latest novel, Exiles in America, is so compulsively readable it's easy to overlook its brimming wisdom." - The Advocate
"Bram is the rarest of creatures: a gifted writer who wields his wit without malice and his wisdom without pretense." - Armistead Maupin
"This intricate, emotionally layered novel is one of the best I've read in years...brilliant, soul-wrenching, heart-penetrating." - Providence Sunday Journal
"A thoughtful domestic melodrama set in the last days before the beginning of the current war." - Kirkus Reviews
"Potent and intoxicating...sexy, riveting and psychologically satisfying." - Genre
"A major 'gay novel'--however you define that...Bram pulls it off...empathetic and enlightening, politically savvy and emotionally sophisticated." - The Guide
"So compulsively readable it's easy to overlook its brimming wisdom." - The Advocate