Everywhere But Here (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780997351378)

With his work selling well through distant urban galleries, the father and twice-divorced painter Robert Turghoff has created an idyllic life for himself. In the rural northern California community where he has lived for two decades, he has his cat, his pool and spa, a few close friends and the privacy he craves. But when the local paper sends a reporter to discuss his proposed mural for the struggling village center, he meets the mysterious Yvonne Curtiss. Yvonne soon proves herself a brilliant promoter of his mural project, a muse who revitalizes his studio work and a mistress he falls in love with. But Yvonne Curtiss is also the mother of a fragile twelve-year-old daughter, the wife of a haunted Iraq-war veteran and a woman desperate to medicate the chronic pain assaulting her. EVERYWHERE BUT HERE provides a vivid, unflinching portrait of life in contemporary rural America.