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Hilary Leichter

Biography

Hilary Leichter

Hilary Leichter is the author of the novels TEMPORARY and TERRACE STORY. She has been a finalist for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Prize, and her work in Harper's Magazine won the 2021 National Magazine Award in Fiction. TERRACE STORY has been named a best book of 2023 by Time Magazine, The New Yorker, The LA Times, Publishers Weekly and other publications. Hilary teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Hilary Leichter

Books by Hilary Leichter

Terrace Story
by Hilary Leichter - Fiction

Annie, Edward and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn’t there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home, and the shape of the world. TERRACE STORY follows the characters who suffer these repercussions and reverberations. How far can the mind travel when it’s looking for something that is gone? Where do we put our loneliness, longing and desire? What do we do with the emotions that seem to stretch beyond the body, beyond the boundaries of life and death?