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. A city dweller’s dream

come true! 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: the

little family of three, their future now deeply uncertain, and those who

orbit their fragile universe. The distance and love between these

characters expands limitlessly, across generations. 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?

Based on the National Magazine Award–winning

story, Hilary Leichter’s profound second novel asks how we nurture love

when death looms over every moment. From one of our most innovative and

daring writers, Terrace Story is an astounding meditation on loss, a reverie about extinction, and a map for where to go next.