M Train Philippe Jorion Wanda is sick

Wanda is sick

and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades

Michael Frayn

Chefs take their tattoos almost as seriously as their knives

and even desperation

M Train Philippe Jorion Wanda is sickM Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane