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When Susanna Solomon turned fourteen, her father told her that he was going to Paris to be alone. She believed him. Instead, he went to be with his mistress, an event that changed the trajectory of her family's life forever. When he returned, her mother confronted him, and he lied to her. Fed up and in despair, she took her own life.Fifty years later and long after he was gone, Solomon felt an urge to see where her father had gone.The result is Paris Beckons, her collection of vignettes told in the voice of our narrator, Nina, who sets out to follow in her father's footsteps in Paris. When she returned to places where she had been with her parents, Nina finds her mother standing beside her while holding her hand on the quai, and her father criticizing her everywhere they went. Confronting them gave her a chance to heal, and she returned home transformed.Evocative and personal, heart-wrenching and illuminating, these short stories reveal what lies beneath our deepest fears and memories and will appeal, especially, to adult children with pasts that refuse to remain buried."Evocative and personal, heart-wrenching and illuminating, Susanna Solomon's Paris Beckons showcases 34 stories revealing what lies beneath our deepest fears and memories. Poignant and for those with pasts that refuse to remain buried.">"Often heart-rending, sometimes surreal, but always intriguing, Solomon's Paris Beckons transports the reader to amazing places in and around Paris and in and around the human heart.">"Susanna Solomon's fantastical musings reveal a clandestine Paris of temptation, imagination, and unease-ghostly "Shakespeare & Company," time-bending "The Clock," Twilight-Zone-esque "The Teddy Bear," and Oscar-Wilde-reminiscent "Hello, Human." Other tales derail the mind's comfort zones-risky soul-searching in "Among My Own Kind," braving Parisian streets as a first-time motorcyclist in "Julia," and communing with a Musée D'Orsay sculpture that thinks outside the box in "The Dancer." Deft, whimsical, with the hovering shadow of a domineering father, these stories rank among Solomon's best.-J. Macon King, Mill Valley Literary Review, author of Circus of the Sun and Drinking with a Dead Cat.

POINT REYES STATION: At 10:42 a.m. deputies called for back-up for a "pedestrian who was not following orders." SO BEGINS THE SHORT STORY: "Following Orders" in which we are introduced to the charmingly confused pedestrian, Fred Rhinehart, one of the magical characters author Susanna Solomon has conjured up for us in this collection of short stories, all set in Point Reyes, her scenic and lovely home in Northern California. Though the characters are fictitious, the author conceived of their adventures by pondering on actual sheriff's calls published in her favorite local newspaper, The Point Reyes Light. But Fred is not the only one of Solomon's characters with whom readers will fall in love. There's his wife, the cantankerous but loving Mildred, Doris, the local hairdresser, the voluptuous Officer Kettlemen and more. It doesn't take long for all of them to become as real as the town in which the author imagines they live, love and dream.

In a world turned upside down by the God of Potency's prancing dickishness - Queen Elizabeth II in orbit, the Dalai Lama partially digested - two heroes set out to restore natural order, overcome crippling dandruff and escape the pull of the Mongolian Illuminati. Chul, a self-righteous South Korean salaryman, vows to find and consume the vaunted Twinkie of Destiny, achieve 15 minutes of earthly omnipotence, restore the honor of Korea and lay Japan low. He is joined by CJ, a vengeful American plumber who seeks to punish the God of Potency and strike at Islam to avenge the tragedy of 9/11. Can anyone stop the God of Potency? Can our heroes find the Twinkie of Destiny before it's too late? Will either CJ or Chul stop being an asshole? There's only one way to find out!

Once again in its long life, the Book of Hours was in danger. And Alphaios had put it there... While recreating a resplendent fifteenth century Book of Hours as a gift for the pope, Brother Alphaios and archivist Inaki Arriaga discover shreds of an ancient parchment thrust into its covers. Though warned away by a visibly shaken Prior Bartholomew about the danger it holds, they pursue the few haunting words that remain, only to stumble on a dark secret that could undermine the very foundation of Catholicism. Now they are torn in a battle between the Church, which wants to destroy the parchment or bury it forever, and its owner, real estate mogul Salton Motice, who wants to use it for nefarious purposes. Meanwhile, the brothers of St. Ambrose learn that Motice intends to buy their midtown cloister and replace it with a skyscraper. The monks will be displaced from their home of nearly two centuries with no certainty at all about their future. Drawn ever further from the cloister into the chaotic city, Alphaios again encounters some of its most intriguing residents-a strange young woman obsessed with painting enormous replicas of master artworks under one of the city's great bridges, and a couple who, decades later, are still coping with having to flee from despots in their own country and almost certain death. Through it all, Brother Alphaios wrestles with allegiance to his religious vows as he searches for a way to protect the document for the terrible truth it tells.

Susanna Solomon, a resident of both San Anselmo and Point Reyes Station, finds humor and delight in the Sheriff's Calls printed in the local newspaper the Point Reyes Light, where she draws inspiration for her short stories. This is the second collection.