1.) There's the grand old man of letters, Murray Thwaite, and the erotic charge in his relationship with his beautiful, adoring daughter Marina, who begins a relationship with and eventually marries Ludovic, an editor and a rising young Turk among the 'chattering classes,' a man Murray despises a...
A coming of age story, a French-American girl named Sagese is trying to figure out all that entails being a half American-French girl growing up with French-Algerian heritage in metropolitan France. Dealing with an atypical mother/father and in-house living situation with the father's parents (S...
A impressive novel, and a highly impressive first novel, all the more for being written by a twenty-something-year-old. I debate if a further star is called for, oh crazy system that is Goodreads.Messud has a penetrating insight and the courage to tell a story with two not-terribly-sympathetic pr...