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A nine-year-old New York boy whose father died in the north tower finds a key in a vase in his dad's closet and walks, through every borough, trying to find the lock that matches it.
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Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.
They Both Die at the End
In a New York where a service called Death-Cast phones people on the day they will die, Mateo and Rufus, two teenagers who get the call just after midnight, meet through an app called Last Friend and spend their last day together.
The Friend
When her longtime friend and mentor dies, a writer in New York inherits his enormous Great Dane, Apollo, and the dog, grieving too, moves into her small rent-stabilised apartment.
The Book of Form and Emptiness
A 13-year-old boy begins to hear the voices of the objects around him after his father's death, and his mother's hoarding and his own listening take him to the library.
A Death in the Family
In Knoxville in 1915 a young family's ordinary evening ends with a late phone call about the father, and the novel follows a six-year-old boy and the adults around him through the days that follow.
In Five Years
Dannie Kohan, a Manhattan lawyer who plans everything, gets the job and the proposal she wanted on the same day, then falls asleep and wakes up five years later in a different apartment with a different man.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
Let the Great World Spin
On the day Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers, a dozen New Yorkers' lives intersect in a novel about connection in the vertical city.
Clap When You Land
When their father dies in a plane crash on his way to the Dominican Republic, Camino Rios in Santo Domingo and Yahaira Rios in New York, half-sisters who never knew the other existed, each learn the secret he kept.
Three Junes
Three Junes in the lives of the McLeods, a Scottish family: the widowed father on a tour of Greece, his gay son Fenno, a bookseller in New York, and a young artist they both come to know.
Bleeding Edge
A fraud investigator in post-9/11 New York discovers that the tech startup she's examining may be connected to something far more dangerous than financial crime.
Nothing to See Here
Lillian, stuck in a dead-end life in Tennessee, is offered a job by her old friend Madison, now married to a senator: looking after his ten-year-old twins from his first marriage, who burst into flames when they get upset.