Nell Freudenberger

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  Lucky Girls

  Five stories, set in Southeast Asia and on the Indian subcontinent—each one bearing the weight and substance of a short novella—narrated by young women who find themselves face-to-face with the compelling circumstances of adult love.

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  The Dissident

  An intricately woven novel about secrets, love, art, and the chaos of everyday American life. Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one-year artist’s residency in Los Angeles.

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  The Newlyweds

  Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. A hundred years ago, Amina would have been called a mail-order bride. But this is the twenty-first century: she is wooed by—and woos—George Stillman online.

NELL FREUDENBERGER is the author of the novels Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds and The Dissident, and of the story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.