https://www.carawall.com/home daily 1.0 2022-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559006331391-48K6CVWML6VOURY19Z2Y/process.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1596824870693-CCQGEY7XG05VGMG3YXC6/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-07%2Bat%2B2.17.04%2BPM.jpg Home Writing with restrained lyricism, Wall’s debut—15 years in the making—offers a kind of literary chamber music, combining the viewpoints of a quartet of characters across multiple decades and events—Kirkus Starred Review More media and reviews . . . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559144261937-1HJ1NB25YSN09AQXFPV7/chorister.jpeg Home There really was a Junior Choir at First Pres, and I was in it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559007476374-C42KV7V3RDZ7UQ2PURZB/Cara+typewriter.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559007505299-TECB8DHZEBFNXTO5U36X/Cara+2.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559009074336-1ZWVBGBCWK5CBH1RZBBQ/firstpresold.jpg Home First Presbyterian Church in Greenwich Village https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559008274064-PH6OVEHIQSF22S97P5BK/Grace+Church.jpeg Home Grace Church’s manse and the path to the church https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559247168543-TZA0XEHTSJBZ2PG59JOQ/IMG_0979.jpg Home Grace’s magnolias in bloom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559500240296-1UBXQK0CTMI288R8Y77J/MomHaydenHall.jpg Home My mom in my parents’ first apartment in New York. This outfit is very much like the one Lily wears on her first date with Charles. That apartment was in Hayden Hall, on the south end of Washington Square Park, and this would have been just about the time my mother got her job as the receptionist at First Presbyterian—which is how this whole story began. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559499955300-YL97BXRJL5N9M2Z95T79/Firstdayatchurch.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559499658803-Y3LALMGL8BRCD8HPN583/DadHaydenHall.jpg Home My dad in my parents’ first apartment. He doesn’t look like Charles, but I do think Charles probably had an overcoat just like that, and was always carrying books under his arm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d91a6ca525b37740e433d/1559500079745-JFM847CB83IO2302ZEF6/christeninggroup.jpg Home The Dearly Beloved ends with a christening. Here’s a photo from my own baptism. 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