The Careful Undressing of Love
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Everyone who really knows Brooklyn knows Devonairre Street girls are different. They’re the ones you shouldn’t fall in love with. The ones with the curse. The ones who can get you killed.
Lorna Ryder is a Devonairre Street girl, and for years, paying lip service to the curse has been the small price of living in a neighborhood full of memories of her father, one of the thousands killed five years earlier in the 2001 Times Square Bombing. Then her best friend’s boyfriend is killed, and suddenly a city paralyzed by dread of another terrorist attack is obsessed with Devonairre Street and the price of falling in love.
Set in an America where recent history has followed a different path.
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I notice the way they talk about us, using different words depending on the color of our skin, the size of our breasts, the shortness of our skirts. I get off easy, with my blond hair and white skin and B cups. It doesn't matter that I'm the most dangerous one. They can't see that. They don't know any of us.
— An examination of love and relationships, how beautiful and terrifying loving someone could be. Also about labels and expectations, and what it means to be a female in today's society.
