Terrace Story, Hilary Leichter
Terrace Story, Hilary Leichter
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Terrace Story
A Novel

Author: Hilary Leichter

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 4 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/29/2023


Synopsis

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn’t there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A city dweller’s dream come true! But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home, and the shape of the world.Terrace Story follows the characters who suffer these repercussions and reverberations: the little family of three, their future now deeply uncertain, and those who orbit their fragile universe. The distance and love between these characters expands limitlessly, across generations. How far can the mind travel when it’s looking for something that is gone? Where do we put our loneliness, longing, and desire? What do we do with the emotions that seem to stretch beyond the body, beyond the boundaries of life and death?Based on the National Magazine Award–winning story, Hilary Leichter’s profound second novel asks how we nurture love when death looms over every moment. From one of our most innovative and daring writers, Terrace Story is an astounding meditation on loss, a reverie about extinction, and a map for where to go next.

About Hilary Leichter

Hilary Leichter is the author of Temporary, which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Reviews

Emotions often make space feel malleable: the way our heart can swell so full of love or grief we never thought possible or the way distances seem to grow or shrink from longing or emotional connection. Terrace Story, the second novel by Hilary Leichter, explores space from physical dimensions, meta......more

This is a very, very odd book and definitely not for everyone. This is a set of four interconnected stories dealing with the bigger themes of loss, family, and the space we occupy in the world. I can't say that I totally understand it, thus why I gave it three stars. I liked it, but this is a book th......more

Goodreads review by aly

This feels bizarre because at one point, I am enjoying the book, but then I also started to get confused before everything started to connect at the end. I could understand if this book is not written for everyone to enjoy, but in Leichter's way of conveying the theme of love, memory, time and space......more