The Synchrony: They Knew Each Other Before They Met

On an ordinary Tuesday evening in Philadelphia, cellist Edna Phillips is alone in a practice room when a grief that is not hers floods her chest, old, precise, and worn smooth by years of quiet endurance. Six hours ahead in Paris, architect Édouard Manet sits at a dinner table and feels an unfamiliar, undefended joy bloom inside him, followed by a tenderness so specific it stops him mid-sentence. Neither knows the other exists. Yet night after night, their most private emotions arrive unbid...