By Sheridan Hay
Eighteen years outdated and entirely on my own, Rosemary arrives in long island from Tasmania with little except her love of books and a zeal to discover the town. Taking a task at an unlimited, chaotic emporium of used and infrequent books known as the Arcade, she is familiar with she has stumbled on a house. but if Rosemary reads a letter from anyone looking to “place” a misplaced manuscript via Herman Melville, the bookshop erupts with simmering pursuits and rivalries. together with real correspondence through Melville, The mystery of misplaced issues is right away a literary event and evocative portrait of a tender lady creating a existence for herself within the urban.
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Pike stretched down from his platform and took the volume from the customer. He then unconsciously proceeded through his ritual gestures—he flipped to the title page, scanned the copyright, his thumb fanned the edges of the entire book, he closed the volume, reopened it at the first page, took a pencil from behind his ear—and marked a reassessed price. He handed it down to the customer. ” said the man furiously. ” “Rosemary,” Oscar whispered, as we returned to his section. ” 39 sheridan hay “No,” I said cautiously.
20 Chapter Three 1 I arrived in New York late at night, unprepared for a life I only dimly suspected might be found there. A storm caused the plane to land roughly. I never saw my destination; clouds covered the city, the ground visible only moments before the plane’s wheels struck it. I felt myself land hard, as if thrown to earth. I had three hundred dollars. In my suitcase, underneath my clothes, lay my scrapbook and Mother’s photograph. At the airport, with tears on her cheeks, Chaps had pressed upon me two presents: a green stone necklace (the color of my eyes) which she assured me was an amulet against further heartbreak, and a small book—her very favorite, she claimed—wrapped in her store’s bluish paper.
I was swallowed whole, surrounded by a populace buzzing and purposeful, a remedy for grief and a goad to it. I was utterly alone, and lived at first without the imposition of order, too scattered and overwhelmed to effect any. I recognized no vista. No building was famil- 23 sheridan hay iar, apart from the iconic Empire State and the Chrysler (motifs of my scrapbook), but even those were unrecognizable from my altered perspective on the ground. I forgot to eat, and an entire day would pass before I spoke out loud.
