D Minor

In four intertwined tales, Laura Otis invites readers into the minds

of 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 rediscovers

her will to live when she falls in love with a television detective.

A supermarket worker who can hear through touch bonds with

a stray cat who bites her hand. A disrespected museum guard

gets in trouble for making visitors look at a painting that obsesses

him. A translator frustrated by the world’s noise and slow pace

gets stuck behind an old woman on a stalled escalator. Can these

solitary people use their exquisite hearing to heal their wounds

and discover inspiration in unexpected places?

D Minor’s four stories subtly link the lives of social outsiders who

find surprising ways to recover from abuse.