The Key Biscayne Affair

The Key Biscayne Affair, a fiction novel by Xita Rubert, explores the sun-drenched strangeness of Florida through a darkly funny coming-of-age lens. After a heated custody battle, an eccentric Spanish philosophy professor moves his two children from Boston to a gated island off the coast of Miami. While the father becomes absorbed in a glittering social scene, his reckless antics force his children to undergo a different kind of education. This volume 1 work follows an unnamed, unreliable narrator as she navigates the surreal and morally ambiguous landscape of the island.

As the narrator becomes an accomplice to her father's erratic behavior, she risks her innocence to maintain their isolated lifestyle. The Key Biscayne Affair functions as a psychological thriller that examines the complexities of memory and derelict parenting. Rubert delivers a sharp, disorienting meditation on childhood within this compelling piece of contemporary fiction.