15 Riveting Reads to Pick Up in May 2013
Stirring new fiction from Isabel Allende, a novel of life after a brother's suicide, a biography of Simón Bolivar and more.
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The Woman Upstairs
By Claire Messud
272 pages;
Knopf
In this literary page-turner, a Boston teacher with dreams of becoming an artist is first enamored of, and the feels betrayed by, a seductive couple who've relocated from Paris.
— Abbe Wright
Published 04/26/2013