In “Terrace Story,” Hilary Leichter invites us to explore a layered set of interlocking stories.
is told in four sections. In the first, “Terrace,” a couple with a young child discover a hidden terrace off their cramped apartment, accessible only under very specific circumstances and only through their overstuffed closet. The second, “Folly,” traces the decline and rebuilding of another couple’s marriage through the eyes of their daughter. The third, “Fortress,” follows the coming-of-age of a lonely woman with a hidden gift; the fourth, “Cantilever,” takes place in space.
This is especially true of “Fortress,” the title a reference to the childhood nickname of its stoic protagonist. It is the longest section of the book and, in many ways, the novel’s heart, not only laying bare the mechanism of the book’s inciting event but also the story’s speculative logic and its emotional core. “Always, she had assumed she was misunderstood,” the protagonist muses, “but that’s because she had thought events happened in order.
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