Daphne Uviller

Taking over as building super in the Greenwich Village apartment building owned by her parents after her predecessor is arrested, twenty-seven-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman finds herself teaming up with surly but handsome exterminator Gregory Samson to uncover the titillating secrets of the building's occupants. A first novel. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Super in the City

a novel

Hotel no tell

Deborah Siegel

Only children don’t have to share bedrooms, toys, or the backseat of a car. They don’t have to share allowances, inheritances, or their parents’ attention. But when they get into trouble, they can’t just blame their imaginary friends. In Only Child, twenty-one acclaimed writers tell the truth about life without siblings—the bliss of solitude, the ache of loneliness, and everything in between.In this unprecedented collection, writers like Judith Thurman, Kathryn Harrison, John Hodgman, and Peter Ho Davies reflect on the single, transforming episode that defined each of them as an only child. For some it came while lurking around the edges of a friend’s boisterous family, longing to be part of the chaos. For others, it came in sterile hospital halls, while single-handedly caring for a parent with cancer. They write about the parents who raised them, from the devoted to the dismissive. They describe what it’s like to be an only child of divorce, an only because of the death of a sibling, an only who reveled in it or an only who didn’t. In candid, poignant, and often hilarious essays, these authors—including the children of Erica Jong, Alice Walker, and Phyllis Rose—explore a lifetime of onliness. As adults searching for partners, they are faced with the unique challenge of trying to turn a longtime trio into a quartet. In deciding whether to give junior a sib, they weigh the benefits of producing the friend they never had against the fear that they will not know how to divide their love and attention among multiples. As they watch their parents age, they come face-to-face with the onus of being their family’s sole historian.Whether you’re an only child curious about how your experiences compare to others’, the partner or spouse of an only, a parent pondering whether to stop at one, or someone with siblings who’s always wondered how the other half lives, Only Child offers a look behind the scenes and into the hearts of twenty-one smart and sensitive writers as they reveal the truth about growing up—and being a grown-up—solo.

Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo

Only Child

Zephyr es una chica normal que no sabe qué hacer con su vida. Ha empezado varias carreras y las ha abandonado todas, así que mientras espera la inspiración sobre su profesión ideal, sus padres la obligan a aceptar el puesto de conserje del señorial edificio del que son propietarios. Su nuevo cometido desata a la detective que Zephyr lleva dentro, y la lleva a descubrir los emocionantes secretos de sus inquilinos.

Sueños de una chica de ciudad

Zephyr, ahora detective auxiliar en la Comisión de Investigaciones Especiales de la ciudad de Nueva York, se hace pasar por conserje para averiguar quién ha sisado una importante suma de dinero de las arcas de un hotel, y por qué. Pero el descubrimiento de un huésped medio asfixiado en el suelo de la habitación 502 le hará sospechar que en el pintoresco establecimiento suceden cosas más siniestras de lo que parece... Aunque la rápida respuesta de los servicios de emergencia desemboca en una sudorosa cita con un bombero de persuasiva labia, en la imaginación de Zephyr sólo hay sitio para el intento de asesinato que se ha producido en el hotel. ¿Es posible que la entrometida y sabelotodo nipona de la habitación de enfrente sepa más de lo que dice? ¿Y qué tienen que ver las crípticas llamadas de una misteriosa corporación con la víctima de la 502? Abrumada por una creciente presión, Zephyr no tarda en descubrir que su tapadera como conserje no la protegerá demasiado tiempo en un lugar donde el crimen, como la propia ciudad, nunca duerme.

Daphne Uviller

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