Almost Perfect Moment, An
Subtitle: A Novel (P.S.)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: February 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780060520878
Subjects: Teenage pregnancy; Jewish families; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary; Fiction / General; General; Mothers and daughters
First sentence: In Brooklyn, in part of Brooklyn that was the last stop on the LL train and a million miles from Manhattan, a part of Brooklyn-an enclave, almost-composed of modest homes and two family houses set on lawns the size of postage stamps, out front the occasional plaster-of-paris saint or a birdbath, a short bus ride away from the new paradise known as the Kings County Mall, a part of Brooklyn where the turbulent sixties never quite touched down, but at this point in time, on the cusp of the great age of disco, when this part of Brooklyn would come into its own, as if during the years before it had been aestivating like a mudfish, lying in wait for a blast, for the glitter, the platform shoes, Gloria Gaynor, for doing the hustle, for its day in the sun, this part of Brooklyn was home to Miriam Kessler and her daughter Valentine, who was fifteen and three quarter years old, which is to be neither here nor yet there as far as life is concerned.