Reinvention, newness was all, all built on the sturdy back of what was past. Somewhere a metal shard hammered by a Dutch worker centuries before oxidized in the ground beneath layers of street and road. And above it all the great city now, today, glittery new, just made, a monumental illusion.
Nora turned at the corner toward her office, her face raised to a glimmer of light between buildings. “You have a blessed day,” said the man handing out free papers on the corner.
“You, too,” she said.
For Lynn Shi Feng
Exceptional mother, wife, and attorney
Beloved daughter (in-law)
BY ANNA QUINDLEN
FICTION
Alternate Side
Miller’s Valley
Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Every Last One
Rise and Shine
Blessings
Black and Blue
One True Thing
Object Lessons
NONFICTION
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Good Dog. Stay.
Being Perfect
Loud and Clear
A Short Guide to a Happy Life
How Reading Changed My Life
Thinking Out Loud
Living Out Loud
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
Happily Ever After
The Tree That Came to Stay
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANNA QUINDLEN is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of nine novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, Miller’s Valley, and Alternate Side. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a number one New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud. Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear.
AnnaQuindlen.net
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