This is a novel about characters - not a lot of action! It all takes place in NYC on a dead-end street. The buildings are old. Some of the tenants have tried to bring their apartments back to former glory and others to completely modernize them. Their street is like a very, very small community where people can get on your nerves. There is George who likes to send out edicts to the neighbors about what they should and shouldn't be doing in their little spot of the city. They gossip, they have traditions that they follow and they all share the same handyman. One of the true jewels of their location is a small parking lot. Nora's husband, Charlie is thrilled when he scores one of those parking places. He can use a break because things haven't been all that great at work and he has been on edge. But all in all Nora is happy and keeping busy with work and running and surviving the empty nest now that her twins are off at college.
One day she is returning from a run and is stunned to see violence taking place before her eyes. What happened is disputed by those who were involved or by those who were there (including Charlie). And with that one act things begin to change.
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