An ambitious young New York lawyer goes into the jungle on his firm's business, only to confront his own demons in a far-away place.

A clearly-written novel about men's self-imposed sense of isolation from other men and from the women in their lives.

After losing her husband to alcohol and her agent to AIDS, a writer of romance novels travels to Istanbul, hoping to create the same sense of wonder that Lawrence Durrell created about pre-World War II Egypt in his ALEXANDRIA QUARTET. She discovers that she cannot write about romance until she recovers a sense of faith in her own life and in life, in general. The results are not what she expected. A novel about hope.