Five Windows
An overworked book editor looks up long enough to watch a trio of houses go up in flames. Once the smoke clears, he becomes increasingly concerned by what he sees out his windows and starts asking questions he never bothered with before. Inspired by Hitchcock's Rear Window and set in San Francisco, Roemer's debut novel explores a fabled American city divided by rapid and aggressive change.
Jon Roemer is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. He is publisher and senior editor of Outpost19, an award-winning book publisher. Roemer's writing has appeared in The Millions, The Writer, OZY, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, and elsewhere. Roemer studied literature and fiction writing at Northwestern.
With shades of Hitchcock's Rear Window, a homebound man becomes increasingly consumed by what he thinks he sees at a four-stop intersection in his San Francisco neighborhood.