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Book Synopsis“A luxuriant fevered quest for reclamation...Political, poetical, and spooky good.” —Joy Williams
A love story of the most fevered, brutal order...Propulsive, erotic, and darkly dreamlike. —Vulture
A new novel by PEN/Faulkner Award winner Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, written with the intensity of early Marguerite Duras and Ferrante''s Days of Abandonment, about a young woman’s search for healing in the fall-out of an affair with a much older man, a personal and political exploration of desire, power, domination, and human connection (The Millions).
It’s summer when Arezu, an Iranian American teenager, goes to Spain to meet her estranged father at an apartment he owns there. He never shows up, instead sending her a weekly allowance, care of his step-nephew, Omar, a forty-year-old Lebanese man. As the weeks pr
