New York state of mind

Dreamingly slow-paced and gorgeously written, this slender novel is a coming-of-age story set over the course of one swelteringly hot New York summer in the 1980s.

We spend the entire novel inside the head of Beth, an 18-year-old girl from the suburbs who has come to the city for an internship on a newspaper. Living in a cockroach-infested slum apartment