Dear Reader
by Mary O’Connell
Could it be that when Heathcliff disappeared from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering
Heights in pain after overhearing Catherine’s marriage plans that he went to
21st-century New York City, where 17-year-old Flannery Fields would enlist him to help
find her stray English teacher?
— Michael Main
Here she was dancing at O’Kelleys while Miss Sweeney wandered the city in despair; here
she was marveling at literary time travel as a true possibility, though literary time travel sounded so goofy and grandiose that it shamed her
further.
Dear Reader by Mary O’Connell (Flatiron
Books, May 2017).