- Fiction, Life change events, Coincidence, New York Times reviewed
Explores the imbalances that spark and sustain dramatic human relations, tracing the overlapping stories of a young American editor's relationship with a famous older writer, an unexpected New York romance during the early years of the Iraq War and an Iraqi-American man who is detained by immigration officers in Heathrow.
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Prestige, grave, contemporary and spare.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Lisa Halliday
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing, Simon & Schuster Audio, Granta
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781501166761
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