Top ten New York novels

Among Francis Spufford's ten top New York novels, as shared at the Guardian:

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (2013)

There’s a large constituency that swears by Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale as the defining NY novel of the fantastic, but I’d nominate this as better Manhattan magic, with its lovely turn-of-the-20th-century immigrant encounter between a woman of clay and a man of fire. Two mythologies meet on the Lower East Side, and catch the Fifth Avenue El together

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--Marshal Zeringue