The understory
By: Pamela Erens
Series: River Alph series; River Alph series
Publisher: Ironweed Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Forest Hills, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781931336048
Subjects: Unemployed; Buddhist monasteries; Fiction
Description: After years of skirting New York tenancy laws, unemployed former lawyer Jack Gorse is evicted by the new owners of his Manhattan building and ends up at a Vermont Buddhist retreat. An attraction to another man destabilizes his precarious balance and culminates in unexpected violence.
Notes: "Winner of the Ironweed Press fiction prize."