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Synopsis
A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist about two sisters’ divergent paths, from the author of The Burning Girl and The Emperor’s Children.
In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn’t all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy’s marriage ends, she flees her home in Sydney to “find herself” on the island of Bali―only to become embroiled with a crew of international misfits and smugglers. Her prim and pious sister Virginia, meanwhile, has never wandered far outside of London. Struggling to find meaning, Virginia follows her aging mother’s advice to vacation on the Isle of Skye. On these two islands halfway around the world, the middle-aged sisters confront the costs of self-knowledge and their destinies with unexpected consequences.
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About the Author
Claire Messud is an award-winning novelist and writer. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and the Strauss Living Award. She has been twice longlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Emperor’s Children and This Strange Eventful History, which won an American Book Award. She lives in Massachusetts.
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