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alcove
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Before I Fall
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Tara and I skirt around the dining room table—my mom would have a coronary from excitement, it must seat at least twelve—and out into a kind of alcove.†
p. 246.4 *
Beyond the alcove is another dark room: from the sofas and bookshelves I can just make out, it looks like a library or a living room.†
p. 246.4
So I go that way, beyond the door, through the dining room, through the alcove where Tara spilled the vase, my boots crunching on the glass, into the living room.†
p. 261.5
"Bathroom," one of them says, pointing to a little alcove just before the kitchen.†
p. 311.9

Definitions:

(1) (alcove)
a recessed or secluded space -- such as in a room or garden

The alcove of a room is a smaller room attached to a larger room and separated by an arch or other architectural feature other than a door.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)