NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this New York Times bestselling novel is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and abandoned by a desire for a world beyond her own.

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"Exhilarating... Ingenious... an intricate puzzle of self-belief and self-doubt." -- The New York Times Book Review

Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always on the fringe of other people's achievements. But the arrival of the Shahid family -- dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar, glamorous Sirena, an Italian artist, and their son, Reza -- draws her into a complex and exciting new world. Nora's happiness pushes her beyond her boundaries, until Sirena's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.

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• Publication Date: April 30, 2013
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• Print Length: 321 Pages
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