Jazz

A twenty-three-year-old writer with nothing on the page sells his apartment and follows a woman to Paris. She never asked him to come.

Chris Sommers has loved Amber for three years. She has never loved him back. He knows this the way you know the weather will turn, a certainty you carry in your body while your mind keeps planning the picnic. When she disappears to Paris, he buys a one-way ticket to a city he has never seen, chasing a woman who was never going to be waiting for him.

What he finds in Paris will cost him everything he thought he knew about love, about art, about himself.

Jazz is a literary novel for readers of Fitzgerald, Salter, and Hemingway. A story about desire that reshapes the person who desires, until the object matters less than the shape it has carved.

We all miss the most the things we never had.