Exceptionally warm-hearted .
A sharp, reflective, and funny story of a young woman coming into herself and struggling to find her place, Vintage Contemporaries is a novel about art, parenthood, loyalty, and fighting for a cause--the times we do the right thing, and the times we fail--set in New York City on both sides of the millennium..
As they did once before, these two women--one dead, one very alive--force Emily to reckon with her decisions, her failures, and what kind of creative life she wants to lead.
And suddenly Lucy and Emily return to her life: Her old friend Lucy\'s posthumous book needs a publisher, and her ex-friend Emily wants to rekindle their relationship.
Em is now Emily, a successful book editor, happily married and barely coping with the challenges of a new baby.
But who is Em, and what does she want to become? It\'s 2004.
Em\'s life revolves around these two wildly different women and their vividly disparate yet equally assured views of art and the world.
Working as a literary agent\'s assistant, she\'s down to her last nineteen dollars but has made two close friends: Emily, a firebrand theater director living in a Lower East Side squat, and Lucy, a middle-aged novelist and single mom.
Em moved to New York City for excitement and possibility, but the big city isn\'t quite what she thought it would be.
It\'s 1991. --Vox Slate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New York City, about the joys of unexpected life-altering friendships, the power of finding ourselves in the moment, and the importance of forgiving ourselves when we inevitably mess everything up. mounts a convincing case for such uncool causes as good taste over fashionable taste, editing as creative craft work, and smart novels where everything matters only as much as it ever matters in life. . .
Exceptionally warm-hearted
