When her husband, Barney, dies in the basement of their Bronx bookstore, Tessie Goodman is left with a financially ailing business in a crumbling, racially strained neighborhood and the memories of a cantankerous thirty-five-year marriage...
The novel, READING THE SIGNS is a gripping mystery about betrayal and love, truth and lies, abuse and power, sound and silence. At the same time it is a meta-mystery about language in language, an enactment of what Virginia Woolf called the Danger an...
Three Legs in the Evening comes from the Sphinx's riddle in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, in which Oedipus is asked what creature walks on all fours in the morning, on two legs in the afternoon, and three in the evening. The answer, which Oedipus gets righ...