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Raised by a brilliant but elusive scholar father after the abandonment of her mother at the age of three, Miranda emerges from a childhood marked by loneliness and a vivid fantasy life when she is sent away to live with her father's friends in Manhattan.

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A magical, wonderful novel that is Shakespeare and Ovid, Wharton and Altman . . . [Her] authentic voice takes us back to our unborn selves.
Andr Aciman, author of "Call Me by Your Name"
A terrific debut novel . . . you won t regret sinking into this book.
"The Cleveland Plain Dealer"
Remarkable for its poise and restraint, this first novel unleashes a sharp and wholly original new voice.
Jennifer Egan, author of "The Keep"

? A magical, wonderful novel that is Shakespeare and Ovid, Wharton and Altman . . . [Her] authentic voice takes us back to our unborn selves.?
?Andr? Aciman, author of "Call Me by Your Name"

? A terrific debut novel . . . you won?t regret sinking into this book.?
?"The Cleveland Plain Dealer"

? Remarkable for its poise and restraint, this first novel unleashes a sharp and wholly original new voice.?
?Jennifer Egan, author of "The Keep"

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Aoibheann Sweeney earned her B.A. at Harvard University, where she won the John Harvard Scholarship and Elizabeth Carey Agassiz Award, and her MFA at the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She has been a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony and at Yaddo. She has written book reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, and The Village Voice Literary Supplement. She is currently director of the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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  • PublisherPenguin Press
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 1594201307
  • ISBN 13 9781594201301
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages257
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