Finished Fr 11/13/20
This is one of my old trade paperbacks that I had apparently not read. While checking the Internet about the book I noticed that the author died of COVID last May.
The title refers to where the novel is set- the southern end of Manhattan Island which lies between the Hudson and East Rivers.
PREMISE:
Connecting stories of residents of a high rise condo in lower Manhattan. Farro Fescu is the concierge of Echo Terrace. He is the one who witnesses the action in the apartment complex...The building is a kind of exotic cross section of people: "An Egyptian-born plastic surgeon who specializes in gender reassignment, a fighter pilot who flew for Nazi Germany during World War II, an Iraqi spice merchant and the world-famous quilter with whom he's having an affair, the adulterer's son who dreams of becoming an undertaker, and the widow whose apartment is a jungle Eden filled with a menagerie of specimens."
The book examines how this small community dealt with both the 1993 bombing and the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center.
I really liked the book.
A link to the book's page at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Two_Rivers
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