Jessica L. (styledealdiva) reviewed on 9/25/2010

It had never occurred to me before, one character says, but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected. A unique tale that intertwines the lives of several people that live in New York in 1974. An Irish monk living in the Bronx projects fighting off the Vice Squad, a Guatemalan nurse who loves a doomed man, a Park Avenue mother in mourning for her dead son, blown up in a café in Saigon. There are computer hackers who "visit" New York in an early echo of the Internet and an artist who learns to love simply, but not before causing a terrible tragedy. And of course, a kind-hearted hooker. There's always one of those. I must admit that I had a hard time getting through that short prologue, but read with patience. You'll be rewarded for it. A masterpiece.

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