CarrollBlog 10.19

"Kaspar suddenly thought of Sivan Ehrenpreis. One of the sexiest women he'd ever known, they'd had an affair a decade ago but on realizing they had little else in common besides a mutual panting for each other's bodies, they split. Afterwords he heard about her from different people—she'd gotten married, had children, gotten divorced, remarried.

"The only other time he'd ever seen her again was years later standing in front of a toy store window at Christmas time in Brooklyn...