Ghosts of New York

<b>A masterful tapestry.</b><b>--Richard Price author of <i>Lush Life</i> <br> A marvelous novel. --Rabih Alameddine author of <i>The Angel of History</i> and <i>An Unnecessary Woman</i></b> <br><b>Jim Lewis sees like a photographer and writes like an avenging angel. --Sally Mann author of <i>Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs</i></b> <br><b>A beautifully vulnerable work of fiction. --Jardine Libaire author of <i>White Fur</i></b> <p/> Ghosts of New York is a novel in which the laws of time and space have been subtly suspended. It interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up after years spent living overseas; a foundling raised on 14th Street; a graduate student his romantic partner and his best friend entangled in a set of relationships with far-reaching personal and political repercussions; and a shopkeeper suffering from first love late in life. Mixing prophecy history and a hint of speculative fiction its stories are bound together even as they are propelled into stranger territory. And undergirding it all is a song which appears disappears and then resurfaces. <p/><i>Ghosts of New York</i> explores complex lives through indelible renderings of settings--a bar a night market a recording studio--that alternate between familiar and unsettling. The work of a celebrated novelist and veteran of the art film and music scenes in New York and Austin (described as a rare talent by the <i>New York Times</i> and a powerful literary voice by Jeffrey Eugenides) this novel will immediately absorb readers intrigued by creative people and the places that sustain and challenge them.