First published 2013
Richard Bowes moves through the streets of New York City, watching time fold and bend around familiar corners. In one story, he discovers a literal hole torn in the urban fabric after September 11th. In another, angels clash in the sky above Manhattan while residents below try to make sense of celestial warfare. Bowes navigates between past and present, finding magic embedded in subway tunnels and apartment buildings. Each tale pulls him deeper into the city's hidden layers, where personal memory collides with collective trauma. The stories circle back to the same fundamental question: how do you live in a place that constantly transforms while carrying the weight of everything that came before? Bowes writes from inside the experience of being a New Yorker, capturing both the intimacy of neighborhood life and the vastness of urban mythology.
Genres: american-fiction, fantasy, magical-realism, 21st-century, urban-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, magical-realism
Setting: New York City
Period: 21st Century
250 pages · Paperback · Fairwood Press, Inc