A review by rbreade
Nine Island by Jane Alison

Alison's prose is beautiful in this story of oddly matched elements: a solitary translator of Ovid at work in a gradually crumbling high-rise apartment in decadent Miami. The translator-narrator's pastime includes observing/spying on other occupants of her high-rise as well as those nearby, a narrative strand that plays as Rear Window without the murder, though incisively detailed all the same.