The Writing on the Wall: A Novel

One of New York City's major resident authors spins a breathtakingly immediate, intimate family novel set around the September 11th attacks

Thirty–four and decidedly independent, Renata has been known to keep her involvement with people—men in particular—to a minimum. Even her job at the library keeps her at a remove from the uncertainty of trusting other people with the stories of her past. Instead, she loses herself in language, always measuring the integrity of words against lived experie...