"My cleaner. She does my dirty work. She knows more about me than anyone else in the world. But does she, in fact, like me? Does her presence fill me with shame?"
Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman...
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A debut novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle.
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Idiopathy: a novel as unexpected as its...
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This powerful, profound autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer...
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When they meet in Dublin in the late nineties, Catherine and James become close as two friends can be. She is a sheltered college student, he an...