The Woman Upstairs
Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.
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Claire Messud gets to the heart of love and longing and the desire to be loved 'best of all' in her emotion packed novel the Woman Upstairs. So true were her observations on love, loss, and anger that I found myself drawing in my breath with recognition and fighting off tears in the understanding of her protagonist's heartache. Not for the faint of heart, this deep book will ignite some soul searching in its readers.
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