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Amine Wefali had four beautiful children and houses in Westchester, Nantucket, and Florida--but her marriage had become acrimonious. She had moved into the attic of her exclusive home in Westchester, a suburb of New York, while Phillip, her prosperous husband, remained downstairs. Torn between ambivalent emotions about her marriage and the inability to articulate her own longing for freedom, Wefali channeled her frustration into a whirlwind of domestic activity. Emotionally estranged, financially dependent, she was landlocked.
Parting the curtains on the intimate stage of contemporary marriage, Wefali delicately coaxes from beneath the surface of domestic life the poignancy, tragedy, loss, and humor that punctuate a long-term relationship. With lacerating wit and candor--about herself and the upperclass world around her--Wefali finds her way out of the attic and into the selfhood she always wanted. And along her journey, she has recorded a stunning personal odyssey both unique and universal.
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Parting the curtains on the intimate stage of contemporary marriage, Wefali delicately coaxes from beneath the surface of domestic life the poignancy, tragedy, loss, and humor that punctuate a long-term relationship. With lacerating wit and candor--about herself and the upperclass world around her--Wefali finds her way out of the attic and into the selfhood she always wanted. And along her journey, she has recorded a stunning personal odyssey both unique and universal.
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“How haunting--this spare story is written with such clean lines that no one will be able to avoid its power. Here is a truly gifted writer who bores in where others might look away.”
--Anne Roiphe (National Book Award finalist and NY Observer columnist)
About the Author:
--Anne Roiphe (National Book Award finalist and NY Observer columnist)
Amine Wefali studied creative writing at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Open City magazine. She lives in New York.
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- PublisherDelta
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0385335148
- ISBN 13 9780385335140
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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