"A beautifully realized exposition of family, myth, the stories we tell ourselves about our lives and of apartheid itself." — Shelf AwarenessHelga Divin, matriarch of a prominent white family from Durban, South Africa, lies dying in the London mansion of her second husband, industrialist Arnold Miro. Her children, Danny and Bridget, rush to her side. The pair soon realize that Arnold plans to steal a collection of African artifacts their l...

An expatriate South African goes home to find the black woman he loved and left behind in this "engaging . . . Poignant [and] altogether promising debut" ( Publishers Weekly).Danny Divin is a young white man in South Africa who enters into an illicit romance with a mixed race schoolgirl, the daughter of a black domestic servant. When social constraints force Danny to end the romance, he travels to America with the hope of starting a new life. There he meet...

From the award-winning author of Empire Settings, "skilled character development guides this courtroom potboiler to a neat finish" ( Publishers Weekly).An unraveling law firm. An unwinnable case. An unworkable love. Derek Dover has it all. Derek's up for partner at Nibble & Kuhn just as that most proper of Boston law firms comically tries to 'rebrand' itself for the Google era. Pompous and arbitrary, the ruling junta of partners saddles him with a...

A splendid original tale, Alfred Buber is warm, smart, romantic, but his life is as barren as an ice floe, an embarrassing collage of successes and humiliations that add up to... nothing. He lives as if he has landed in a strange country, nowhere he recognizes.Can an-oh-so respectable Boston lawyer, out of options, out of hope, lonely beyond measure, stray way outside the lines and find love?Can he step into the tawdry dark, and back into the wholesome light, and not be aff...