From the deceptive happiness and the jeopardy of love in Brooklyn at the beginning of the new millennium: Psychiatrist Erik Davidsen recounts a tumultuous period of his life. It seems to be a "year of secrets," the year in which his father dies and letters are found in the estate that hint at a dramatic event from his youth. The year in which his sister is stalked and harassed by a stranger. The year in which a stunningly beautiful Jamaican woman moves into Erik's house, who, however, seems to have something to hide. "Siri Hustvedt writes, quite literally, dreamlike." Salman Rushdie.