Product Overview
Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, thisNew York Timesbestselling novel is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and abandoned by a desire for a world beyond her own.
Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always on the fringe of other peoples achievements. But the arrival of the Shahid familydashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar, glamorous Sirena, an Italian artist, and their son, Rezadraws her into a complex and exciting new world. Noras happiness pushes her beyond her boundaries, until Sirenas careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.
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