Sarah Rosenthal
MANHATT EN

Spuyten Duyvil
ISBN 10: 1-933132-32-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-933132-32-7
Paper, 156 pp., 6x5
$13

Proudly misspelled, Manhatt en chronicles the adventures of a young woman as she searches for her life story in the ultimate American metropolis. The heroine—who may or may not be author Sarah Rosenthal—leads the reader into one scene after another filled with family, friends, chance acquaintances, exes, and current love interests, where relationships and geography intertwine and memories collect on every street corner. As keen and insistent as the city it describes, this writing attains a clarity fueled by hunger for insight and language’s tonal responsiveness. Spanning two coasts, leaping whole decades in a single clause, Manhatten documents the rush of events and the meditative spaces between, negotiating a life complete with all its enchantments, illusions, intersections, and collisions.  —Juliana Spahr

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