The title and description drew me towards this debut novel but promise something other than that which is delivered by the author. Expecting a thriller, instead Ms. Braunstein offers a psychological rumination on what it means to be missed or missing in America. There is the wrap-around story of ...
This is how she greeted him. It was Jade Grant, behind the Come & Go. Paul had come here for a cigarette and found her sitting against the dumpster, her legs pulled up to her chest, a massive fountain drink between her knees. She chewed on its straw like on a piece of licorice, her pale, narr...