Monte Carlo Days and Nights

by Susan Tepper

Monte Carlo Days & Nights is the story of a love affair laced with fluid motives and an unpredictable balance of power. Reading these tightly locked, impeccably drawn chapters was akin to sitting with an old photo album that jolts presumption; the slight downturn of lips or lack of wrinkles around smiling eyes tease, invoking questions about passion—its veils and intricacies. Tepper’s details are precise sensory delicacies that beg meaning and lend themselves to a curiosity that grows with each exchange. As soon as I reached the sentences “I don’t feel nervous during sex with him. Only during normal.” I knew I would have to readjust my schedule to inhale this book at once.

—Jen Knox, author of After the Gazebo and The Glass City

Susan Tepper smoothly guides you through a lost world reminiscent of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Cote d' Azur: glitter and glamour and pain, all in gracefully crafted scenes.

—W.F. Lantry, editor Peacock Journal

Susan Tepper lives with her family near rural Locke, NY. She is a retired school and academic librarian and has taken many writing and art classes at Wells College. She has been a part of the fiction section of Syracuse’s YMCA Downtown Writer’s Program from 2008-2010. Her poetry has appeared in The Healing Muse, Play of Mind, The Wells Chronicle, Reflections Journal, The Wicker Coracle and others. “The Money Laundress of Cold Spring,” was included in, Women Celebrating Women Anthology (2008). Her chapbook, God Speaks to Me at the Salvation Army Thrift Store, was published in 2004. Her photography has been published in The Healing Muse and in Central New York Magazine. Her photographs were on display at the Delavan Gallery in Syracuse. She concerns herself with matters of nature, mysticism, politics, spirituality, individuality, and history in her writing and photography.