Our History in New York: A Novel

by Linsey Abrams

Overview

Our History in New York covers a single year in the lives of narrator Chloe, her long-time lover, Helen, and their friends. From AIDS to the glory of Greenwich Village to romance and aging, the novel addresses time, art, mortality, and community at a century’s end. The New York Times said of this nationally reviewed author: “Abrams has a superb talent for the specific . . . She [has] her own style-a mixture of introspection, common sense, daydreaming and recollection-and controls it beautifully.” Sojourner called “each chapter an exquisite short story. . . . Abrams paints . . . neighborhoods with the precision of the old Dutch Masters.”
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504036955
Publisher:	Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Publication date:	10/25/2016
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Linsey Abrams has published the novels Charting by the Stars, Double Vision, and Our History in New York. Her stories have appeared in the Editor’s Choice and Pushcart anthologies, her essays and reviews in The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at the City College of New York.

Editorial Reviews

Abrams paints......neighborhoods with the precision of the old Dutch masters.....each chapter is an exquisite short story.

Harvey Swados

Linsey Abrams has a superb talent for the specific...She discovers her own style --a mixture of introspection, common sense, daydreaming and recollection-- and controls it beautifully.

New York Times Book Review

By drawing readers into characters' lives, Abrams is able to gently place before them the larger issues of life and death...Abrahms' book is a clean recount of everyday living, showing that any gay or lesbian's life resembles the norm of society.
— ForeWord Magazine

Michele McDonald