In this first of a series of interrelated novels a writer goes in search of the meaning of what he does, a life in writing, the why of the imaginary, while examining themes of exile, expatriation, memory, passion for books, authors and places, existential survival, traveling country to country, city to city, walking to cafés, bookstores, subways, alleys, graveyards, various rooms in locations from Norway, Italy, Long Island to New York City to London, Paris, Japan, Los Angeles, Chicago and a lot of other places in-between; this first book explores a hundred years of a family saga, the writer breaking the bonds of such family attachments, setting out for other nights, other cities, other harbors, other rooms, and setting the stage for the future appearance of an international cast of characters, historical figures, literary ghosts, time-travel, murder, suicide, love, hate, war, myth, small town intrigue, big city decadence and allure, mystical nature on the coast of Norway, and the end of a romance in a room in Paris with a view of a tower of Saint-Sulpice that opens the page to the next novel in the series, Hope Someday You Come Home to Tell Us All about Paris. Joseph O Arata (1956) was born in New York. He is the author of Sunday Mornings at Oyster Bay, Hope Someday You Come Home to Tell Us all about Paris, Other Nights, Other Harbors, and Telemachus Leaving the Tower.