The Sunken Cathedral

From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award nominee and author of "A Short History of Women," a deeply moving novel that follows a cast of old and young characters as they negotiate one of Manhattan's accelerating, shifting neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the unease of twenty-firs [...]
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From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award nominee and author of "A Short History of Women," a deeply moving novel that follows a cast of old and young characters as they negotiate one of Manhattan's accelerating, shifting neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the unease of twenty-first century New York.
Marie and Simone, friends for decades, were once immigrants to the city, survivors of World War II in Europe. Now widows living alone in Chelsea, they remain robust, engaged, and adventurous, even as the fading vistas from their past interrupt their present. Elizabeth is Marie's upstairs tenant, a woman convinced that others have a secret way of being, a certain confidence and certainty she lacks. She is increasingly unmoored--baffled by her teenaged son, her husband, and the role she is meant to play. Helen takes a painting class with Marie and Simone. Sid Morris instructs them at his School for Inspired Arts, a dusty studio on the sixth floor of a tenement slated for condo conversion.
In a chorus of disparate voices and over layers of time, Kate Walbert, a "wickedly smart, gorgeous writer" ("The ""New York Times Book Review"), explores the growing disconnect between the world of action her characters inhabit and the longings, desires, and doubts they experience. Interweaving long narrative footnotes, Walbert paints portraits of marriage, of friendship, and of love in its many facets, always limning the inner life, the place of deepest yearning and understanding and anxiety. Beautifully written, "The Sunken Cathedral" is a profoundly wise novel about the way we live now.