Excerpt from Four-Berth Couchette by Carole Goldberg

Four Americans decide that an escape to Europe might be the antidote to their current misfortunes in the humorous Four-Berth Couchette. The travelers, ages twenties to thirties, include: Kirsten, a former L.A. supermodel; Max, a dropout from Harvard Medical School; Duncan, a sheepish financial controller in Silicon Valley; Robin, a beleaguered misfit from small- town Nebraska.

Kirsten, Max, Duncan, and Robin meet in a crammed four-berth couchette on the train from Paris to Nice. Soon they’re unloading problems on each other – fellow Americans who have no trouble dispensing comradely advice. Their individual plans are discarded in favor of traveling together.

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