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108 years, 10 months, and 9 days While Eileen waited for Shannon to be pulled from a meeting at her school, and Surya walked through neighbors' yards in search of Ann and Dylan, Naomi found herself following . . . Click here for full entry

Good Neighbors; I Know Your Ways Eileen woke to find the house empty, the kitchen a mess of toast crumbs and scattered cereal. She stretched and turned off the television, a real-life judge still . . . Click here for full entry

The Basement: A Distant, Dirty Place Sitting at her kitchen table -- a fancy name for a card table that she found in her mother's basement, moved to college, around the five boroughs of New York . . . Click here for full entry

It's Mumbai Now, in Art and Alcohol Early on Thursday morning, Surya sat down heavily at her kitchen table and drank what she thought was coffee from the mug in front of her. Still warm, the . . . Click here for full entry

Mistakes I Have Made...and Who Numbered this Crazy Street? I did, of course! And I made some errors with names and numbers. I'll go back and fix them, but for those of you who wondered what's going on, here's some clarification: Orange . . . Click here for full entry

OrangeHotCouponMama and the News From where she sat at her kitchen table, Eileen heard raised voices and then silence. She looked up, as if she could better see, but the refrigerator door, partially open, and the . . . Click here for full entry

Author's Note: Internet Search Turns Up...Concrete So I forgot the web address of this blog and I tried to google it. What a surprise to find it linked to a site that specialized in concrete and masonry. The . . . Click here for full entry

Chapter 11: Love vs Sports : And the winner is... Tuesdays, like this one, were slow mornings for Joe. He rose from bed after Cole was long gone to school, and made coffee in the kitchen. Joe put Cole’s . . . Click here for full entry

There are pictures here: http://orangeheightsnovel.blogspot.com/ There is more to see and read at this site:http://orangeheightsnovel.blogspot.com/ . . . Click here for full entry

Chapter 10: If You Build it, they will find a zoning violation From next door, Constance heard the slam – bang! – and scrape of the Amin family’s front door opening and closing. She stood in the front hallway, ready to put . . . Click here for full entry

A Brief Pause to Answer the Question: What Am I Reading??? Several people have asked, so... This is a serial novella, a story told in brief episodes. It is set in a town much like Maplewood and South Orange, though that town . . . Click here for full entry

Chapter 9: Is There a Cricket Pitch in Orange Heights? Across the street, Rohit stared at his parents, turning from his father to his mother and back again. His mother smiled, as if expecting him to smile back. His . . . Click here for full entry

Chapter 8: It's not panic. Naomi roused herself quickly, especially once she realized that she was sitting on a plastic lawn chair in front of a neighbor’s house with a small child staring at . . . Click here for full entry

Chapter 7: Naomi's New House Naomi rose from bed when the phone rang at ten o’clock. She had woken earlier to drop Ben off at the train station; he wearing a suit and rushing, she . . . Click here for full entry

Chapter 6: Rohit and the TP incident Rohit caught the 6:00 bus home from school on Tuesday. He could have taken the 3:30 bus, but he was nervous about seeing his mother before she had time . . . Click here for full entry

Chapter 5: Joe and Cole In 217 Orange Heights Avenue, every light in the house was shining, or so it seemed to Joe Atkinson as he paced from room to room, circling back to his . . . Click here for full entry

Chapter 4: 221 Orange Heights Avenue In 221, Constance Campbell mentally calculated her weekend wages as she wiped the kitchen counters before bed. If she added her hourly wage to the holiday pay, she might earn . . . Click here for full entry

Chapter 3: More Neighbors Rohit listened for the familiar sounds of his father, Neil, preparing for bed. He heard the shuffle of his father’s leather-soled slippers – he parked his shoes at the door . . . Click here for full entry

Chapter 2: Meet the Neighbors Shannon Geary missed Naomi’s wave, from where she crouched in the basement of 215 Orange Heights Avenue. While Naomi watched her husband sleep, Shannon pulled a t-shirt from the . . . Click here for full entry

Orange Heights: A Serial Novel Set in a Town Much Like SOMA. Chapter 1 Naomi Nootbahr Roth strode through the front rooms of the new house, pausing to inspect the honey-colored floor and touching the glossy white paint of a doorway. She . . . Click here for full entry