A Winter in New York by Josie Silver EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Josie Silver
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Women Fiction
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“WAS I RIGHT OR WAS I right?”
Bobby links his arm through mine as we pass beneath the illuminated
red, green, and white “Welcome to Little Italy” arch and find the place alive
with street vendors, drumbeats, enticing smells and throngs of people as far
as the eye can see.
My landlord-slash-best-friend has twisted my arm into spending the
afternoon with him at the Feast of San Gennaro—an Italian food and culture
festival that, according to Bobby, New Yorkers look forward to every year—
knowing my love of food is just about the only thing strong enough to entice
me from the safety net of my apartment these days. To say I’ve become a
New York homebird since I pitched up on his doorstep nine months ago is
something of an understatement. I arrived desperate for change, dreaming of
the New York I knew only through my mother’s favorite movies. It’s
laughable really, knowing what I do now, but I genuinely thought there was a
chance I’d land a job filling pastrami sandwiches in Katz’s Deli, or that there
might be an Iris-sized hole waiting for me in the bustling kitchens of the
Plaza.
Neither were hiring, as it turned out. I wasn’t even brave enough to stick
around at Katz’s Deli long enough to ask—the queue was crazy-busy and so
long it was out the door and wrapping the block. The Very Tasty Noodle
House was hiring, though. Bobby Han hadn’t long inherited the entire
building, from his swish top-floor penthouse down to the ailing noodle
restaurant at the bottom, even though he’d never so much as touched a wok in
his life. I like to think that my brilliant mother walked beside me in spirit as I
trudged the darkening New York streets fresh off the plane, turned down by
place after place. Blind instinct guided me along Chrystie Street and straight
into the path of Bobby Han, who at that precise moment was sticking a CHEF
NEEDED notice in the dusty window of his restaurant. Within the hour I’d
accepted not only the job but the keys to the minuscule, old-fashioned
apartment above, recently vacated by his ancient noodle-queen aunt.
My
pokey home is the buffer between the penthouse Bobby shares with his
husband, Robin, and the ground-floor restaurant, a sponge to soak up all the
noise and cooking smells so they can live in peace without the faint linger of
peanut oil on their clothes or their Egyptian cotton bedsheets.
What I didn’t realize back on that first day was that I’d also just found
the biggest platonic love of my life. Bobby has turned out to be best friend
and big brother all rolled into one gloriously loud, sarcastic package, human
gold dust for a lonely girl starting again over three thousand miles from
home.
This afternoon’s rain-laden sky does nothing to dampen the atmosphere
at the festival and there’s an infectious energy and buzz in the air that carries
people from stall to stall, tasting, savoring, collectively groaning in pleasure.
“You were so right,” I say, drinking in the carnival of color and noise. “I
want to try everything!”
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