The novels
01 · Published
My Name Is Marcel
Geneva, 1920
The novelBorn in Geneva, Marcel enters a life that will carry him far from the place of his birth. Across changing countries, cultures and seasons, he searches for love, purpose and somewhere he might finally belong.
From the brightness of childhood to the choices and compromises of adulthood, Marcel carries the memory of everyone he has loved and everything he has been forced to leave behind.
My Name Is Marcel is an intimate novel about memory, exile, family and belonging—and the quiet ways in which the places we lose continue to live within us.
02 · In editing
Fire Keeper
Persia, 646 CE · Udvada, 2015
The novelPersia, 646 CE. As the Sasanian Empire collapses and an ancient world begins to disappear, Zarir is entrusted with protecting more than a sacred fire. Carrying memories of his homeland and the people he has lost, his journey leads from Isfahan through Basra and eventually eastward to Sanjan, India. Spanning nearly fourteen centuries and ending in Udvada, India, in 2015, Fire Keeper is an epic novel of faith, exile, survival, and inheritance—exploring what people carry with them when they are forced to leave their homeland, and how a flame can preserve the memory of an entire people.