Rezension: Claire Messud: “The Woman Upstairs”

Every new Claire Messud novel is a reason to rejoice. “The Woman Upstairs” follows up her superb “The Emperor’s Children”,which which was set in New York City in late 2011 and was as close to an instant classic as American literature has produced in this century.

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