Moroccan Roll

In the tradition of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, Steven Stanley’s enthralling debut novel takes a large and fascinating cast of characters (American, French, and Moroccan, straight and gay) and transports them, and the reader, to an intriguing and exotic time and locale-fabled Morocco in the 1970s. Just as San Francisco became more than merely a setting for Tales of the City, so do Morocco’s people, customs, traditions, and even its food and drink become an integral part of Moroccan Roll, a novel destined to engross the reader from its first page to its explosive climax. Claudette—She lived a life of glamour and adventure, until a very public love affair nearly destroyed it all. Dave—Morocco offered escape from a closeted boyfriend. Then he fell for a young—and straight—Moroccan student. Janna—Drugs seemed the only way for her to forget the Moroccan who had broken her heart. Marcie—She left Wisconsin to spread her wings, only to fall desperately in love with the town’s most infamous playboy. Kevin—Coming to Morocco meant a second chance at love with another man after tragedy had robbed him of his first.