Why a Booktrail?
2025: ‘Maybe we love people because they won’t let us know them.’
Stowaways
What you need to know before your trail
A summer’s evening in Manhattan. Nothing – not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore – can undo the heat’s hold on the city. Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher. That’s when it arrives. An email with the subject line: ‘From Paul Axel’. An email about a dead man from Carol – a woman Julian has never met. Paul has left a message he’d like her to relay.
Emails are exchanged. Morning coffee at the Bryant Park Grill is agreed. Carol, fulfilling Paul’s final request, wonders how she will tell Julian of a life – and a love – he has no idea existed. A life, encased in a flash drive, containing multitudes
Locations
Reset- America/ USA - New York, New York City
- A: Bryant Park Grill
- B: Grand Central Terminal
- C: Penn Station
- D: New York Public Library
- E: Charles St
Travel Guide
New York City
A city that never sleeps they say and this is a novella that also never sleeps as it looks over emotion, connection and what it means to be you.
It’s quite apt that the city is a backdrop – that Bryant Park Grill is the place to read it if you can as this is the central location of the story.
A quiet location and a quiet story.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Stowaways
Destination/location: New York City, Manhattan Author/guide: André Aciman Departure Time: 2025
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