CHOSEN BY
Newsday
Library Journal
The Chicago Tribune
and Publishers Weekly as

ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS
OF THE YEAR



A New York Times
New and Noteworthy Paperback



and

Winner of the 2003
Janet Heidinger Kafka
Prize

FOR FICTION BY AN AMERICAN WOMAN

published in the US by Carroll & Graf
in the UK by Little, Brown
in Holland by de Bezige Bij
in Argentina by El Ateneo
in Russia by Azbooka (2006)

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