The author of "Gods and Monsters" and "The Notorious Doctor August" probes the dark depths of the human heart in this insightful and heartstopping novel that explores how the personal becomes the political. "Exiles in America "demonstrates the skill and imagination that have garnered Bram widespread critical acclaim.

Zack Knowles, a psychologist, and Daniel Wexler, an art teacher at a college in Virginia, have been together for twenty-one years. 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 he begins an affair with Daniel. Soon politics intrude upon two families thrown together by love, threatening the future of both in ways no one could have predicted.

A novel that explores how the personal becomes political, Exiles in America offers an intimate look at the meaning of marriage, gay and straight.