A Ship Made of Paper
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: February 17, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780060933425
First sentence: Two years after he was kicked down the stairs of his apartment building in New York City, which shattered his wrist, chipped his front tooth, and, as he himself put it, broke his heart, Daniel Emerson is back in his hometown, driving Ruby, his girlfriend's four-year-old daughter, to her day care center, called My Little Wooden Shoe.