Lavinia Jones Wright

The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.

Two women return to their hometown for the funeral of a friend who has taken his own life. They find themselves reconnecting with their old community at Lovers, the local dive bar music venue that hasn’t changed in the years since they left. The friends face their shared loss, and are reminded of the power of coming together through music.

Set during the construction of the World Trade Center in 1970s New York. After a co-worker starts spreading false rumors about him and the boss' daughter, an electrician retaliates with an escalating series of anonymous prank notes. The notes spread as gossip through the crew, sparking a psychological war of rumors and retaliation amid the daily grind of construction work.

While on a hot date, a high school math teacher encounters a group of his students.

The emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah, a New York City schoolteacher and budding novelist with a wife of twenty years and four children and Alison, a young waitress and wife from Montauk at the end of Long Island, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy.