Hazel Saltwater

Hazel Saltwater is the first person narrator of the novel. In the narrative present she is middle-aged, and attempting to rewrite her father's version of the novel by the same name. After losing her husband, Vik, in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hazel is uncertain how to confront her grief and reconcile with her husband's death. Writing The Blizzard Party in her own words is her attempt to make sense of who she is and what she has experienced.

When Hazel is a young girl, she lives with her parents, Erwin and Sarah, in an exquisite apartment building called the Apelles, located in Manhattan, New York. As an only child, born to her parents in their old age, Hazel's world is largely defined by the lives of the adults around her. On the night of the blizzard party in 1978, Hazel falls and hits her head. Her mother takes her...