From the award-winning author of Shirtless in Iceland, Jagged Blind Hop Zozzle is a beautiful, roaring twenties tale about a love triangle that ends in Tragedy.In the summer of 1928, Amherst Professor Cuthbert Westbrook-Madison takes a sabbatical in order to live with his Parisian Aunt in Paris and write a novel. Once in Paris he finds, through his Aunt Minerva's connections, everyone . from F. Scott Fitzgerald, to King Vidor, to James and Nora Joyce . including two aristocratic French twins, handsome Theophile and lovely Irene. Alfred is enthralled by Paris, as well as by Theophile, Irene, their mother Eugenie, and her lover Nicolae, an illegal immigrant from Romania.He pitches ideas for his novel to F.

Scott Fitzgerald, learns the art of Parisian party bavardage, and finds himself experiencing explosive physical and emotional passion for the first time in his life.The novel culminates in a tragedy in the park of Rambouillet Palace, the official summer home of the French President . and Cuthbert leaves Paris, a man without a novel or love, and returns to the life he had hoped to leave behind.Rich with Simpson's sense of place and ability to capture the nuance of characters, haunting sensuality, profound wit and the beauty of summer Paris, Jagged Blind Hop Zozzle is a tour de force: a superb novel about the soul smashing power of passion, and how the heart is, indeed, "a lonely hunter.".