“Whispers and Wildflowers, NYC” is a collection of stories, characters, and events based in NYC, notably during the nineteen fifties. The characters lived there, in the ephemeral American city between two rivers where ornamented old architecture existed in the shadow of smooth planed glass towers—reaching skyward within the ever-changing reflected light, dancing across the waters.

The characters move through the light of the changing seasons, the days, the nights, and new dawns and dusks.The sounds of the city’s voices echo old languages and “new” short words. Songs and music pulsate histories of multi-various cultures and pour forth back against the sky as prayers. Feet-pound familiar rhythms or tiptoe lightly across the rooftops. The excited delight of the playground children intermittently top angry voices from overcrowded apartments, and the shrill “dahling” clamor of fleeting glamor drown out the quiet whispers and hopes of those searching, searching and waiting, still waiting. Throughout the passage of several years in “Oncle Peter, Lucky Dog, and Les Sylphides,” Hannah Brandt transitions from a child into a young adult. Through her instinctive love of music and heartbreaking early losses, she is able to devote herself to her true calling.