For 15 years, Julian Iragorri worked with the famed Frick Collection, the world-class small museum housed in the Henry Clay Frick House on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The museum’s collection of artwork, drawings, furniture, sculpture, and other objects is truly splendid, demonstrative of the very best the artists and craftsmen of earlier centuries had to offer. A visit to the Frick Collection is frequently described as a step back in time, an escape from the frenetic lifestyle of the city. Enchanted with this magical oasis in the middle of Manhattan, Julian Iragorri helped found the Young Fellows, a collection of younger members who organized fundraising and other events for the collection, and served for several years on the steering committee.
Together with Lou Aronica, Julian Iragorri co-wrote a new novel, Differential Equations, which explores a special time in the life of Alex Soberano. A prodigiously successful New York businessman, Soberano’s personal life is a disaster. In the midst of a nasty divorce, he is incapable of sustaining a relationship of any substance with any woman; his closest female friend is his little niece. While others might seek solace for a few hours by visiting the Frick Collection, Soberano decides to take some time off from his busy professional life.
When Alex Soberano arrives on the west coast, though, he experiences something completely out of the ordinary. Using a literary technique called magical realism, Iragorri and Aronica introduce three characters who are not only strangers to Soberano and the west coast, they also do not belong in the present, instead appearing from decades in the past. It is his dealings with these people from different times and places, and the relationships he forms with them, that provide the novel with its driving force.
Differential Equations has received glowing reviews from readers on various online sites, including goodreads, Amazon, and eBay. A representative review, together with excerpts from the book, is available on www.fictionstudiobooks.com.
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