β Scribed by Claire Messud
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperorβs Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.
Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and lover. She has instead become the βwoman upstairs,β a reliable friend and neighbor always on the fringe of othersβ achievements. Then into her life arrives the glamorous and cosmopolitan Shahidsβher new student Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale, and his parents: Skandar, a dashing Lebanese professor who has come to Boston for a fellowship at Harvard, and Sirena, an effortlessly alluring Italian artist.
When Reza is attacked by schoolyard bullies, Nora is drawn deep into the complex world of the Shahid family; she finds herself falling in love with them, separately and together. Noraβs happiness explodes her boundaries, and she discovers in herself an unprecedented ferocityβone that puts her beliefs and her sense of self at stake.
Told with urgency, intimacy and piercing emotion, this brilliant novel of passion and artistic fulfillment explores the intensity, thrillβand the devastating costβof embracing an authentic life.
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