By Christopher Bram
Zack Knowles, a psychologist, and Daniel Wexler, an artwork instructor at a school in Virginia, were jointly for twenty-one years. within the fall of 2002, a number of months earlier than the Iraq struggle, a brand new artist in place of abode, Abbas Rohani, arrives together with his Russian spouse, Elena, and their little ones. yet Abbas isn't really fairly what he turns out, and he starts an affair with Daniel. quickly politics intervene upon households thrown jointly by way of love, threatening the way forward for either in methods nobody can have estimated. a unique that explores how the private turns into political, Exiles in the USA bargains an intimate examine the that means of marriage, homosexual and immediately.
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The office was dark, the curtains drawn, the air conditioner running. September remained warm and humid. Two bookcases flanked the curtained window, one full of psychiatric texts, the other full of Victorian novels, biographies, and history. A soft, black leather chair squatted against the opposite wall. Fay Dawson sat very ladylike in the chair, staring down at the hands she kept neatly tucked in the folds of skirt between her knees. “Prefers worrying about others to worrying about self,” Zack scratched in pencil in his spiral notebook.
Yes, yes, Daniel. ” Daniel hurried away, fearing he looked awfully nelly tiptoeing over the tiles. He quickly snapped his goggles over his eyes and dove into the pool. He clothed himself in water. He began to swim, solidly and briskly. This was his element, his habitat, his home. He climbed through the mild, peppery burn of chlorine, reached the end of the pool, and spun around. He wondered why he had felt so selfconscious around the Rohanis, so nervous. He soon calmed himself in the meditative rhythm of counting off laps.
But when Zack and Daniel got up to go back to their real lives, they went for a walk instead. 26 Christopher Bram They spent the whole afternoon walking, ambling around the West Village, strolling up into the overcast sky by the Hudson River piers—the abandoned elevated highway still stood on stilts over West Street—telling stories about work and family and school. The tops of the skyscrapers downtown dissolved in the low ceiling of gauzy gray clouds. They wasted the entire day together and decided they might as well have dinner.