Lowen sleepwalks, a condition that made her mother deeply paranoid, and caused her, in many ways, to feel socially isolated.
The rest of us come to hide." What ran through your mind when you read this? Did you think, in this moment, that Jeremy had something to hide? What, ultimately, was Jeremy's biggest secret?Ĥ. Lowen feels an immediate kinship with Jeremy when he helps her on the street: "Most people come to New York to be discovered. There are far more people here with stories much more pitiful than mine." Did you find yourself relating to Lowen in this moment? Or were you surprised by the frankness with which she compared her circumstances to others'? Did you agree with Lowen when she said that people who have experienced great hardship often seek out individuals who are "worse off," to make themselves feel better?ģ. Lowen enjoys living in New York because, in the vastness of the city, she feels invisible: "The state of my life is irrelevant in a place this size. Why do you think the author chose to open the novel in this way? What did the scene foreshadow, in terms of the fragility of life, and how did the man's demise contrast with the prolonged, in-between state Verity found herself in as a character?Ģ. The novel begins with a sudden death, which Lowen witnesses as a bystander.
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