Intermezzo: A Novel
Though they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek appear to have little in common.
Peter, a successful lawyer in his thirties living in Dublin, seems unshakeable. Yet after their father's death, he finds himself relying on medication to sleep and struggling to navigate his relationships with two very different women: his long-time love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a carefree college student who treats life like a joke.
Ivan, on the other hand, is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player who has always viewed himself as socially awkward and a loner, the opposite of his charismatic older brother. In the early days of his grief, he encounters Margaret, an older woman grappling with her own tumultuous history, and their lives quickly become intertwined.
For these two mourning brothers and the people they cherish, this is a new chapter—filled with desire, despair, and potential; a chance to discover just how much one life can contain without shattering.
Though they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek appear to have little in common.
Peter, a successful lawyer in his thirties living in Dublin, seems unshakeable. Yet after their father's death, he finds himself relying on medication to sleep and struggling to navigate his relationships with two very different women: his long-time love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a carefree college student who treats life like a joke.
Ivan, on the other hand, is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player who has always viewed himself as socially awkward and a loner, the opposite of his charismatic older brother. In the early days of his grief, he encounters Margaret, an older woman grappling with her own tumultuous history, and their lives quickly become intertwined.
For these two mourning brothers and the people they cherish, this is a new chapter—filled with desire, despair, and potential; a chance to discover just how much one life can contain without shattering.
Though they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek appear to have little in common.
Peter, a successful lawyer in his thirties living in Dublin, seems unshakeable. Yet after their father's death, he finds himself relying on medication to sleep and struggling to navigate his relationships with two very different women: his long-time love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a carefree college student who treats life like a joke.
Ivan, on the other hand, is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player who has always viewed himself as socially awkward and a loner, the opposite of his charismatic older brother. In the early days of his grief, he encounters Margaret, an older woman grappling with her own tumultuous history, and their lives quickly become intertwined.
For these two mourning brothers and the people they cherish, this is a new chapter—filled with desire, despair, and potential; a chance to discover just how much one life can contain without shattering.