Fiction. A novel of connected short stories, PORT AUTHORITY ORCHIDS documents, in precise and delicious prose, the delicate but fun psychological terrain of Manhattan as experienced by Dalloway, an idealistic thirteen-year-old prodigy with a transexual father and an emotionally-distant but still loving mother. Along with her cohort and partner-in-crime, Hannah, she navigates territory that is sometimes poignant, sometimes taboo, but always colorful,...