Saturday, May 16, 2020

NYC from a Distance


New York looks strange and empty--at least in Big A's picture. He's scheduled to work at New York Presbyterian and stay at the (Leona) Helmsley Medical Tower, which I keep calling "the Cruella DeVille hotel" in my head.

He just finished reading Atticus Lish's Preparation for the Next Life, which I read when it came out (2014) and loved and recommended. I wouldn't say it to him because of the way it ends, but something about two people from vastly different places in the world falling in love in New York resonated with aspects of our own story...
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