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In the New York Times best selling writer of The Emperor’s Kids, a masterly new book: the captivating admission of the lady awakened, changed and tricked with a desire to have a global beyond her very own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary-school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, sometime ago sacrificed her desire to be always a partner, mom and successful performer. She's rather get to be the “woman upstairs,” a friend and neighbor usually on the edge of others’ accomplishments. Subsequently into her existence comes the attractive and multicultural Shahids—her new pupil Reza Shahid, a young child who enchants as though from the story book, and his parents: Skandar, a running Lebanese teacher who has come to Boston to get a fellowship at Harvard, and Sirena, an efficiently appealing German performer.