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Praise for The Good Mother of Marseille: "A veritable bouillabaisse of a novel, simmering with intrigue and steaming with surprises." --Lorea Canales, author of Becoming Marta and Los Perros "A remarkable work of imagination, a debut novel that not only introduces us to a gifted writer of fiction, but offers a beguiling glimpse into the zeitgeist of a generation's appetite for the exotic and the mysterious. In the Hemingway tradition, its many linked stories gel into one compelling story of Americans abroad. Shade's sensitivity toward his characters is infectious, and, quite frankly, unforgettable." --Philip Schultz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author most recently of Luxury and The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse "Marseille with its hot dangerous streets, its bars, and beautiful churches becomes a character in this fresh and original novel by Christopher X. Shade. Here we glimpse anew intriguing and moving facets of human nature so skillfully and believably portrayed." --Sheila Kohler, author of 13 books, most recently a memoir, Once We Were Sisters "Well-developed characters, finding themselves in a landscape that is both beautiful and troubling, come to Marseille in search of many things--a chance to prove themselves, an adventure, a last hurrah. But what they find within is deeply more meaningful and surprising." --Chantel Acevedo, author of The Distant Marvels and The Living Infinite "The Good Mother of Marseille is a beautiful and memorable debut, a melancholy tale of both lost and found, a love letter to the night-lights of France, a movable feast for this 21st century." --Scott Cheshire, author of High as the Horses' Bridles More Praise at christopherxshade.com. One of Big Other's "Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2019" Book Synopsis: In Christopher X. Shade's The Good Mother of Marseille, it's the summer of 2013, in the year of Marseille's designation as the European Capital of Culture. Readers get a ta