Riverhead“The Lonely Hearts Hotel” By Heather O’Neill By Eugenia Zukerman, Special to The Washington Post To read Heather O’Neill’s dazzling new novel, “The Lonely Hearts Hotel,” is to enter an enchanting and poetic world that is also amusing, troubling and often lascivious. O’Neill’s lively style is so filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader’s experience is virtually cinematic. Set in Montreal and New York at the onset of the Great Depression, “The Lonely Hearts Hotel” is the story of two foundlings, a boy and a girl, born of different mothers.