TY  - BOOK
AU  - Messud,Claire
TI  - The woman upstairs: a novel
SN  - 9780307596901
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Elementary school teachers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women artists
KW  - Teacher-student relationships
KW  - Psychological fiction
N1  - "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso
N2  - Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal
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