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Seventeen-year old Thea lives in a villa high above the ocean, sheltered by her mother Nalia, a retired opera singer who leaves Thea only to visit her mysterious psychoanalyst. Thea is promised by her father to a rich friend of his in a bet, but she escapes to an awakening she would never have dreamed of when she is married of to a man whose name she does not even know. Textured, stark, & philosophical, this is a novel about different kinds of love, the bond between mother & daughter, & the separation that must occur before a young woman can move on to lead her own life.Freed, Lynn is the author of 'House of Women' with ISBN 9780316666336 and ISBN 0316666335.
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