Newly discovered sexual curiosity and willingness, the Arabian Nights, the "Scheherazade" Symphony, neglect of an art dealer father, and the lusts of a charismatic symphony conductor all come together for fourteen-year-old American Evan in the back of a limousine in a Nice, France, seaside park.
Within the closed atmosphere of the faculty of a small university's art department, the goals of the game are getting ahead, getting revenge, and getting it on.
When Clay's life partner since he was fourteen, Mustafa, who owned a Turkish restaurant in Berlin, dies, Clay brings his remains back to the Anglican church in Izmir, Turkey, where the priest, Father Thomas, initiated Mustafa when he was fourteen. Thomas introduces Clay to fourteen-year-old American-Turkish altar boy Rifatt, who needs attention and someone to take care of him.]
(Revised Feb. 2023) Roger La Pine is attending a small college when he comes home to his large Mormon family in Idaho for Christmas. He's got a secret problem, his oldest sister has a secret problem, and soon they must travel together for a secret purpose. Almost no potatoes. Gambling in Reno. Nine yr. old little sister gets a shock (but everyone is wearing clothes). There will be blood, and worse. A river runs through it. Tied up with a happy ending!
Cherry lives in a deprived area and has terrible parents but she learns to overcome things and when she gets sent to her Uncle for the summer she doesn't go back.
Bill Matherson was no saint, but he was a goodish man and a loving father. Neither of them intended for it to happen, events just seemed to conspire against them.