Alice Sherman Simpson

Told in interconnecting stories, Ballroom is a beautifully crafted debut novel-reminiscent of the works of Elizabeth Strout and Jennifer Haigh-about a group of strangers united by a desire to escape their complicated lives, if only for a few hours each week, in a faded New York City dance hall. Time has eroded the glamour of the Ballroom, but at the end of the 1990s, a small crowd of loyal patrons still makes its way past the floor-to-ceiling columns...