Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of interlinked stories, which follows four New Yorkers living in a single square block of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Rather than bring these lonely people together in a conventional way, Thomas instead allows them to brush by each other in the street without ever noticing, much as they might in real life. Her characters haunt the same bookstores, the same neighborhood cafs - but as much as these characters want to connect to the world around them, this quietly witty book points out their inability to do so. 199 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-0248.