I feel so lucky to have the great Caitlin Horrocks endorse The War Begins in Paris!

Caitlin’s The Vexations (about Erik Satie’s life in Belle Epoque France) is one of the best novels of the last five years. She was all booked to come to Omaha in 2020 to tell us about the novel at Omaha Lit Fest, but, alas, it wasn’t meant to be.

“This powerful, immersive novel is simultaneously lush and chilling. Theodore Wheeler transports us to a place and time where friendships make it harder, not easier, to chart a moral path forward, and masterfully explores how love and loyalty can, for better and for worse, change what we’re willing to do, and who we understand ourselves to be.”

—Caitlin Horrocks, author of The Vexations