Issue #0

Our History in New York

Plot

Our History in New York covers a single year in the lives of narrator Chloe, her long-time lover Helen, and their friends. From AIDS to the glory of Greenwich Village to romance and aging, the novel addresses time, art, mortality and community at a century’s end. The New York Times said of this nationally reviewed “Abrams has a superb talent for the specific … She [has] her own style—a mixture of introspection, common sense, daydreaming and recollection—and controls it beautifully.” Sojourner called “each chapter an exquisite short story … Abrams paints … neighborhoods with the precision of the old Dutch Masters.”