2023/039: Still Alive — Eleanor Lerman

2023/039: Still Alive — Eleanor Lerman

The moon was hidden behind clouds that lay on the sky like hooks, waiting to snag the stars.  Down the block, beyond the boardwalk, I could hear the ocean chewing up the shore. [p. 365]

I'm confused by Eleanor Lerman: I thought I'd wishlisted her works having read and loved at least one of them, but evidence suggests that this is actually the first novel I've read by her. I liked it very much, though, and will read more of her work.

Jessie, who works at a New York restaurant called Vampire's and lives with her Russian girlfriend Rita in a beachside town on Long Island, is surprised to get a phone call from a schoolteacher in Minnesota saying that her long-lost stepsister Jackie has been found: or, more accurately, that the remains of a murdered woman have been identified as Jackie. ( Read more... )