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Gordon Chaplin

Setting is Everything

By Gordon Chaplin

July 5, 2016

I can’t read a book of any kind—thriller, literary fiction, memoir, biography, even history—unless the setting speaks to me. I need to feel, with all my senses, the physical world in which the writer is trying to involve me. Often, that’s what I’m left with years later when I think of the work: not the…

Paraíso

Paraíso: New Excerpt

By Gordon Chaplin

June 27, 2016

Paraíso is a genre-bending story about love, sibling relationships, and the dark side of paradise (Available July 5, 2016). Peter and Wendy—their mother chose the names—felt as close as twins, despite their difference in age. As teens, they fled their wealthy Philadelphia home in the family station wagon and headed for Mexico, only to be…

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