Books like The affairs of others by Amy Grace Loyd

Amid the quiet streets of Brooklyn, widowed Celia Cassill runs a small apartment building, curating tenants who respect one another’s privacy. Five years after her husband’s death, she clings to solitude and boundaries, guarding her own ghosts. The arrival of Hope—a striking woman fleeing her betrayed husband—shakes Celia’s carefully ordered world. As Hope’s passionate affair erupts and another tenant vanishes, the building’s walls crumble, revealing violence, intimacy, and the blurring of private and public life. Through these trials, Celia and her tenants are drawn together, confronting their hidden desires and grief. The novel examines the interiors of bodies and boroughs, unveiling the honest, often turbulent traffic between men and women, with a hopeful resolution that affirms the indomitable force of life and desire.

First publish date: 2013