...a particularly Jersey malaise--the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.

“La Inca shook her head. She was looking at her favorite picture of his mother o…”

“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”

“You, Yunior, have a girlfriend named Alma, who has a long tender horse neck and…”

“We were about to hit the door when she returned, panting, an envelope of cold a…”