New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it's not, it's like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they're one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel (ed. Macmillan, 2009) - ISBN: 9781429927130