Day: A Novel

A novel set in a Brooklyn brownstone that follows a family over three years. Dan and Isabel, a married couple, are drifting apart, and both feel drawn to Isabel's younger brother Robbie, who lives in the attic loft. Robbie, struggling after a breakup, maintains a glamorous online presence while facing pressure to move out. Their children, ten-year-old Nathan and five-year-old Violet, navigate their parents' growing distance. One year later, as the world enters lockdown, the brownstone becomes confining. Violet becomes anxious about safety, Dan and Isabel communicate through tension and sighs, and Robbie finds himself isolated in an Icelandic mountain cabin, relying on his secret Instagram life. By the third year, as the crisis eases, the family confronts their new reality and reckons with what they have learned, lost, and how they might move forward. The novel explores love, loss, family struggle, and the tension between living together and apart.