Moving to the City During the Pandemic: âThis Is the New York I Know.â
The best part of his Upper West Side apartment? Itâs a three-minute walk from his daughterâs place.
Mark Hale, who was living far from family in Atlanta for most of the pandemic, moved to New York to be near his daughter, Emi Yasuda Hale, and her husband, Viktor Mashalov.Credit.Katherine Marks for The New York Times
May 10, 2021
Mark Hale always dreamed about living in New York, but it took a pandemic to bring him here.
Mr. Hale, who grew up just outside Philadelphia, spent 32 years in Tokyo working in project and business development for a Japanese general contracting firm, and raised a family there. Several years ago, when the firm offered him a position in Atlanta, he decided to take it. His two children were grown, his daughter lived in the U.S., and though his wife, Kiyomi, did not want to leave their son, Sei, who is now 23, or their Tokyo apartment, she would visit Atlanta for sever
Ringside Report Reviews Faccia Lunna Restaurant ringsidereport.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ringsidereport.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Favourite childhood read? I loved Joan Aiken’s Arabel’s Raven. There was something wonderful about this great anarchist, in the shape of a raven, coming to disturb the cosy suburban peace. Mortimer was a real punk. I loved his “Nevermore” answer to everything. Arabel was also incredibly cool, mainly because she levelled such clear-eyed, straightforward questions at all these shady, complicated characters.
What was the first book to make an impact on you? Lorrie Moore’s Like Life. I first read it in my early 20s while living in Buenos Aires, on the 13th floor of a tower block – which felt quite edgy and New York-ish, and therefore a perfect fit for Moore’s angsty, urban stories. Her characters seemed at one remove from ordinary life and relationships, and so conscious of their fragile hold on things. It was the first time I realised you could write very comically about something immensely sad. I also think Lorrie Moore has some of the best one-liners in contempora