Teenager Carlisle hoped to follow them onto the stage, spending a pivotal summer studying ballet in New York City and living with James while her father managed a company upstate. Robert, James, and Carlisle’s mother, Isabel, had all been involved in professional ballet. The narrative shifts between 2016 and Carlisle’s adolescence during the start of the AIDS crisis, tracing the steps that led to her father’s decision to cut her out of his life. As she prepares to return to their apartment in New York’s West Village, Carlisle grapples with lost relationships and old wounds. She hasn’t spoken to her father, Robert, in nearly 20 years. In this novel about devotion, art, and love in many forms, fortysomething Carlisle is working as a freelance choreographer in Los Angeles when her father’s husband, James, calls to tell her that her father is dying.
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