![]() ![]() Its title refers to an actual apartment building in Greenpoint, built in the late 1800's, which Christensen lived near for many years. Christensen says in the press materials that she structured the book "according to the rhythms and atmosphere of a classic detective novel: love is dead - who killed it?" The Astral comes to a close, like a good mystery, "when all the facts have come to light." The book does in fact read like a thriller clothed in beautifully crafted prose. The spine of her story is the dissolution of a marriage as seen through the eyes of the husband, who's been thrown out of his home by his wife of several years after she suspects he's having an affair behind her back. ![]() So begins Kate Christensen's evocative sixth novel, The Astral. ![]()
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