A ship made of paper

Description

"After a shattering incidence of violence in New York City, Daniel Emerson has returned to the Hudson River town where he grew up. There, along with Kate Ellis and her daughter, Ruby, he settles into the kind of secure and comfortable family life he longed for during his emotionally barren childhood. But then he falls in love with Iris Davenport, the black woman whose son is Ruby's best friend. During a freak October blizzard, Daniel is stranded at Iris's house, and they spend the night together - the beginning of a sexual liaison that eventually imperils all their relationships, Daniel's profession, their children's well-being, their own race-blindness, and their view of themselves as essentially good people. And the emotional stakes are raised even higher when Iris's husband, Hampton, suffers a devastating accidental injury at Daniel's hands."--BOOK JACKET.

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.

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Other Editions

• A ship made of paper: a novelEcco Press2002-01-01
• A ship made of paperHarperCollins2003-01-01
• A ship made of paperWheeler Pub.2003-01-01
• SuperFoods RxElectronic resourceHarperCollins2004-01-01
• A ship made of paperHarper Perennial2004-01-01
• A Ship Made of PaperElectronic resourceHarperCollins2004-01-01