The Archive

Places

• New Yorkka·0 Page: In the novel, quote-checked

  The city Kate knows best. In the hotel Tom holds her wrist as he used to crossing Eighth Avenue against the light, and the lamp on the reception desk is like the ones in the reading room at the New York Public Library.

• The dining roomska·0 Page: In the novel, quote-checked

  Around a corner from the sitting room, a dining room with its table set for at least twenty guests, where two people in suits look up in unison when Kate and Tom come in.

• The grand staircaseka·0 Page: In the novel, quote-checked

  The grand central staircase that climbs away from the lobby to the higher floors.

• The In-Between Hotelka·0 Page: In the novel, quote-checked

  A stately old hotel where Kate finds herself standing when Tom brings her into his dream: a chandelier the size of a car, a grand central staircase, corridors leading off in every direction, Persian carpet and dark wood paneling as solid as any wall at home. “Welcome to the In-Between Hotel,” Tom tells her. “This is where all the worlds connect.” Down the longest corridor, he says, is the Reality Vault.

• The lobbyka·0 Page: In the novel, quote-checked

  The hotel’s lobby, lit a sparkling white by a chandelier the size of a car, with a grand central staircase climbing to the higher floors and corridors leading off in every direction. Down the nearest of them runs a long row of doors, every one of them shut: the detail that stays with Kate afterward. Behind her, a reception desk she would have sworn was not there a moment ago.

• The New York Public Libraryka·0 Page: In the novel, quote-checked

  Its reading-room lamps are what the green lamp on the hotel’s reception desk looks like.

• The Reality Vaultka·0 Page: In the novel, quote-checked

  The first thing Tom names in the hotel, pointing up the longest corridor: the Reality Vault, where they store the access portals.

• The sitting roomka·0 Page: In the novel, quote-checked

  A room off the lobby that Kate sees as a warm blur of firelight and plush furniture: armchairs, lamps with little fringed shades, and bookshelves all the way to the ceiling. Tom floats up along the top shelves, runs a finger across the spines and pulls a book free.