"When you walk too fast, you get wrinkles," a neighbor said to me. She stopped me right in the middle of West Broadway to tell me this. "Indeed," I replied. "I firmly believe that," she responded. I looked at her face. She is around sixty. Her face was relatively wrinkle-free. "I know you," she said. "You always walk very quickly." She was right about that. I like to walk fast. It's not so easy to walk quickly on the crowded streets of Manhattan. For a year, Lily Brett wrote about her life in New York for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. The texts paint a picture of the city and its spirit; they also come together to form a self-portrait of the author, who has won the hearts of her readers with her openness and courage. Following the overwhelming success of Einfach.