A Place of Greater Safety: A Novel

Why, he really wanted to know, was his son so emotional? Where did he get this capacity to infect others with emotion: to agitate them, discomfit them, shake them out of their ease?

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought: that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

There will be a war in our lifetime, he told Camille, and you and I will be on different sides. So let us be fond of each other, while we may.