Author

Publication

2004 - Riverhead Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,250 words, Guess

Page Count

213 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing205889
  • Goodreads537494

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3569.E618 S96 2004

Description

"A young college graduate arrives in New York City for a prestigious internship at a respected magazine. By a fateful coincidence, an older coworker knows of an apartment in Brooklyn that has suddenly been vacated by the mysterious Vera Cross. The friendship that evolves from the narrator's feeling of indebtedness to Vera and from the bond created by their hard-to-place identical skin color at first delights them - but gradually and inexorably affects both women's lives in ways they could not have dreamed."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

THIS WAS THE MOMENT I savored every night, when I could see him but he could not see me.

Excerpt

THIS WAS THE MOMENT I savored every night, when I could see him but he could not see me.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Other Editions

  • Symptomatic: a novelRiverhead Books2004-01-01

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