D Minor

In four intertwined tales, Laura Otis invites readers into the mindsof social outsiders and synesthetes with super-sensitive ears.While leading vastly different lives in German and American cities,four loners fight to thrive on their own terms. During the pandemic,an English teacher discarded by her married boyfriend rediscoversher will to live when she falls in love with a television detective.A supermarket worker who can hear through touch bonds witha stray cat who bites her hand. A disrespected museum guardgets in trouble for making visitors look at a painting that obsesseshim. A translator frustrated by the world's noise and slow pacegets stuck behind an old woman on a stalled escalator. Can thesesolitary people use their exquisite hearing to heal their woundsand discover inspiration in unexpected places?D Minor's four stories subtly link the lives of social outsiders whofind surprising ways to recover from abuse.