in bookstores
May 2006!

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?

now in paperback!

Rendezvous Eighteenth
"Always a witty and astute social observer, Jake Lamar illuminates the interaction of French locals with Americans abroad, some of them on the lam, in a suspenseful and funny thriller set in the seamy, particularly fascinating Eighteenth Arrondissement of Paris."
-- Diane Johnson author of Le Divorce, Le Mariage and L'Affaire

Here on JakeLamar.com, read Jake's essay: "Behind Enemy Lines: Post-War Notes of an American in Paris"

A review-essay on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

...at St. Martin's Minotaur (Jake's publisher) - you can read the essay: "The Road to Rendezvous Eighteenth"

...at Salon.com - "The Role Model Syndrome: Two new memoirs by talented black women show how hard it is to reconcile good writing and racial politics." (Jake Lamar's review of the books Straight, No Chaser by Jill Nelson and Trespassing by Gwendolyn M. Parker)

...at the Washington Post - "Small World" (Jake Lamar's review of the book The Portable Promised Land: Stories by Touré) the Washington Post charges a fee to read this article.

...at the Washington Post - "The Outsider " (Jake Lamar's review of the book Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley) the Washington Post charges a fee to read this article.

...at the Washington Post - "Folk Heroine" (Jake Lamar's review of the book Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd) the Washington Post charges a fee to read this article.

...at the Washington Post - "Just Passing Through" (Jake Lamar's review of the book Caucasia by Danzy Senna) the Washington Post charges a fee to read this article.