:: Jake Lamar - Official Author Website :: author of Rendezvous Eighteenth, Close to the Bone, If Six Were Nine, (Le Caméléon Noir,) Bourgeois Blues, The Last Integrationist.

Welcome to author Jake Lamar's official website.

Jake Lamar is the author of the memoir Bourgeois Blues and five novels: The Last Integrationist (translated into French as Nous avions un rêve) Close to the Bone, If Six Were Nine (translated into French as Le Caméléon Noir) Rendezvous Eighteenth (translated into French as Rendez-vous dans le 18e) and most recently Ghosts of Saint-Michel.

Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, he graduated from Harvard University and then spent six years writing for Time magazine. In 1993, he went to Paris intending to stay for a year; he now lives there full-time with his wife.

"While hidden lives and secret agents abound, the novel is really about family and love and what it takes to hold both together. [Lamar's] unique storytelling makes for a lively read."

Ghosts of Saint-Michel
Marva Dobbs has a life most people envy. An American who has lived in Paris for most of her adult life, she runs a popular soul food restaurant, and her thirty-nine year marriage has brought her a beautiful grown-up daughter. So why is she jeapordizing everything for a fling with her sous chef, a mysterious twenty-eight-year-old Algerian man named Hassan?