Minor Indignities + The Comforts of Exile Novel Bundle, Trevor Cribben Merrill
MINOR INDIGNITIES
Nothing in his rural New England upbringing could have prepared Colin Phelps for freshman year at an Ivy League college: the House Master crashes hall parties; public nudity is practically an intramural sport; and French intellectuals spouting arcane theories cast a spell over the undergraduates. Colin plunges into the hookup culture, competing with his brash, rule-breaking roommate. But as he soon discovers, the pursuit of transgression is fraught with unexpected pitfalls, and his suave pose must be stripped away if he is to find genuine freedom.
THE COMFORTS OF EXILE
For twenty-two-year-old Colin Phelps, who fills notebooks with dazzling theoretical insights but is powerless to describe a pancake, escape is a permanent state of mind. Little wonder that when his girlfriend Julia leaves him for a job in New York, Colin flees to a charming suburb of Paris, equipped only with a passable French accent and a tenuous connection to a famed literary player.
Before long, he is holding court in Left Bank cafés, flirtatiously jousting with the sharp-witted, devoutly religious Laure, and overseeing a translation project that could launch his career. But then rumors of his Parisian entanglement reach Laure’s high-powered lawyer ex, and even Julia in New York. Soon the new life Colin has constructed for himself starts to crumble, as he falls prey to jealousy, the lure of old attachments, and—above all—his paralyzing tendency to overthink everything.
