Exiles in America
By: Christopher Bram
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Painters -- Fiction; Psychiatrists -- Fiction; Gay couples -- Fiction; Iranians -- United States -- Fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Zack Knowles and Daniel Wexler have been together for twenty-one years. Zack is a psychiatrist, Daniel an art teacher at a college in Virginia. 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 soon he and Daniel begin an affair. After love throws the two families together, politics threatens the future of both in ways no one could have predicted.