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The Woman Upstairs

Focusing on a lifetime of regret and a glaring betrayal, Clare Messud spins a slow teasing tale in The Woman Upstairs.  As the story opens, the narrator has clearly survived whatever has made her so...

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Tapestry of Fortunes

After finishing Claire Messud’s stark story of loneliness and betrayal, I needed a reaffirmation of the human spirit, and who better than Elizabeth Berg – one of my guilty pleasures – with her latest...

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The Burning Girl

   In her interview of Claire Messud for the New York Times, Ruth Franklin identified the writer as the “one of the foremost chroniclers of women’s hidden appetites.”  Just as in her slow building tale...

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