Part One: Bummed Out in Brooklyn Our Heroine At Loose Ends – Just Another Memorial Day – "A Social History of the Color Pink" and Some Other Ideas – A Promise to the Astrologer – An Unsatisfactory Text Message

Once, ten years ago, Brooklyn had just been a place where Nicole's grandfather had been born. But now it was home. Manhattan was somewhere she could stare at with a mix of smugness and detachment from Gowanus Memorial Day parties while she drank vodka with agave-sweetened tonic and decided between Franny's and The Farm for dinner.