Stephen Evans Jordan from Elmhurst, Illinois, is set to launch his first book, Tatiana and the Russian Wolves, during a booksigning event at Anderson’s Bookshop beginning at 7PM on Mon., Oct. 1, 2018.
The free event, open to the public, will include a presentation of the book with Q&A.
Anderson’s Bookshop is located at 123 West Jefferson Ave. in downtown Naperville.
For additional event details and to be part of the booksigning line, visit Anderson’s Bookshop in downtown Naperville or online.
Book Summary
Alexander adored his mother, Tatiana, an exotic and magical woman. Tatiana’s imagination kept her past at bay until insanity—the Russian wolves— took her and unleashed Alexander’s mental breakdown. Although Alexander inherited many of Tatiana’s gifts, he wonders if Tatiana’s bequest includes insanity. Alexander sees himself as fragile; confronting Tatiana’s past is a daunting task. Ignoring Tatiana’s gifts, Alexander has become an international banker and leads a comfortable life in San Francisco. However, he is blackmailed over an unconventional relationship and loses his job while piecing together Tatiana’s suicide and family secrets. An ex-lover is dying of AIDS and offers Alexander his business, an art dealership that Alexander would love. Will he withstand the gales that are sweeping through his life? Will he atone for his past dishonesty and be reconciled with those he loves? Or will he too succumb to the Russian wolves?
*Quick Description – Alexander must reconcile his mother’s elusive past with his present life. A highly refined banker, an unconventional relationship results in blackmail; ruinous bank politics end his career. Will he survive?
Stephen Evans Jordan
Stephen Jordan’s fiction is inspired from living overseas combined with a passion for history. He grew up in the Napa Valley in the 1950s in a family of readers—conversations often centered on books. Of his parents’ gifts, love of literature is his most cherished.
Stephen discovered art history at Stanford and considered a career in the arts. He opted instead for international banking—with assignments in Southeast Asia and Africa. His short stories have been published in Ireland and in online journals.
Stephen and his wife, Susan, reside in Elmhurst—just west of Chicago—with their cat, Lucy.
Jordan’s Inspiration
Jordan says he’s fascinated with Russian history, especially the Revolution’s deterioration from glittering promises to a dark despotism that endured well into the 1980s. And the émigrés who fled? Those with marketable skills often adapted to their adopted countries, while many aristocrats turned to an imaginary Russia to buffer their descent into penury, depression and self-destruction.
The émigré’s literary legacy includes Ann Ryan’s objectivism, Vladimir Nabokov, and the movie Anastasia starring Yul Brynner. Most émigré writers were educated—some from the aristocracy—and their memoirs seemed to be final chapters. However, Tatiana and the Russian Wolves follows the Russian Revolution’s reverberations into the 1980s as a young man confronts his mother’s journey from Russia to her suicide in San Francisco.
For more information about Jordan, visit stephenevansjordan.com.
Submitted by Cindy Birne for Stephen Jordan.
