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My nemesis : a novel

Title

My nemesis : a novel / Charmaine Craig.

Author

Craig, Charmaine

Publication

New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.
©2023

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Description

192 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women's Prize, comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples. Tessa is a successful white woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar based in Los Angeles. Sparks fly as they exchange ideas about Camus and masculine desire, and their intellectual connection promises more--but there are obstacles to this burgeoning relationship. While Tessa's husband Milton enjoys Charlie's company on his visits to the East Coast, Charlie's mixed-race Asian wife Wah is a different case, and she proves to be both adversary and conundrum to Tessa. Wah's traditional femininity and subservience to her husband strike Tessa as weaknesses, and she scoffs at the sacrifices Wah makes as adoptive mother to a Burmese girl, Htet, once homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur. But Wah has a kind of power too, especially over Charlie, and the conflict between the two women leads to Tessa's martini-fueled declaration that Wah is "an insult to womankind." As Tessa is forced to deal with the consequences of her outburst and considers how much she is limited by her own perceptions, she wonders if Wah is really as weak as she has seemed, or if she might have a different kind of strength altogether. An exercise in empathy, an exploration of betrayal, and a charged story of the thrill of a shared connection--and the perils of feminine rivalry--My Nemesis is a brilliantly dramatic and captivating story from a hugely talented writer whose portrayals are always gracefully phrased and keenly observed"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Novels.
Philosophical fiction.
Fiction.

Call Number

JFD 23-998

ISBN

9780802160713
0802160719

LCCN

2022042881

OCLC

1333267107

Author

Craig, Charmaine, author.

Title

My nemesis : a novel / Charmaine Craig.

Publisher

New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Craig, Charmaine. My nemesis New York : Grove Press, 2023 9780802160720 (DLC) 2022042882

Research Call Number

JFD 23-998

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